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Danish ex-minister on trial for splitting migrant couples

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Tourists party on a yacht in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Since becoming one of the world's first destinations to open up for tourism, Dubai has promoted itself as the ideal pandemic vacation spot. With peak tourism season in full swing, coronavirus infections are surging to unprecedented heights, with daily case counts nearly tripling in the past month, but in the face of a growing economic crisis, the city won't lock down and can't afford to stand still. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Denmark suspends Dubai flights amid doubts over virus tests

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Denmark to hold impeachment trial vote on ex-minister

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Denmark charges Russian citizen with spying for Russia

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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2013, file photo of A.P. Moller-Maersk's oil rig in the North Sea named Halfdan. Denmark has decided to end to all oil and gas offshore activities in the North Sea by 2050 and has cancelled its latest licensing round, saying the country is &quot;now putting an end to the fossil era.” The Danish Parliament voted late Thursday to end the offshore gas and oil extraction that started in 1972 and has made it the largest producer in the European Union. (Claus Bonnerup/Polfoto via AP,file)

Denmark to end oil, gas extraction in North Sea

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui, center, argues with pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho, left, during a demonstration in Hong Kong. Hui who is currently visiting Denmark urged European nations on Wednesday to allow protesters in Hong Kong &quot;a safe haven from the terror” of China's Communist Party. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Ex-Hong Kong lawmaker goes into exile, plans to travel to UK

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2 Danish brothers convicted of biracial man’s island murder

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FILE - In this file photo dated Friday Nov. 6, 2020, mink look out from a pen on a farm near Naestved, Denmark. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has appointed Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, a new agriculture minister, after Mogens Jensen resigned after the government ordered the culling of all Danish mink because of the coronavirus, but without having the necessary legislation in place first.(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Culled mink resurface after burial in Denmark

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Historic designation honors Underground Railroad operatives

By JULIE NICKELL - Associated Press

A police officer is silhouetted as he passes a mural by artist Casper Cruse, showing a woman with a face mask holding a heart in the colors of the dutch flag in support for those suffering from the effects of the coronavirus, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Mask effectiveness study from Denmark counter to CDC recommendation

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

England's Phil Foden, center, and Iceland's Birkir Bjarnason challenge for the ball during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between England and Iceland at Wembley stadium in London, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (Michael Regan/Pool via AP)

Foden wins over Southgate again with first England goals

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday Nov. 6, 2020 file photo, Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen kill their herd, which consists of 3000 mother minks and their cubs, on their farm near Naestved, Denmark. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has on Thursday, Nov. 12 issued new guidance to curb the spread of the coronavirus between minks and humans, warning that the transmission of COVID-19 among animals could speed up the number of mutations in the virus before it potentially jumps back into people. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, file)

Danish government gets backing for plan to cull minks

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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Minks on a conveyor belt to be skinned, at Sydvestjysk Pelscenter A.m.b.a. in Varde, Denmark, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. 200 More than a quarter million Danes have gone into lockdown in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Friday's move was contain the virus, and it came two days after the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms. (John Randeris/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

UK bans non-resident arrivals from Denmark over mink fears

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FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2020 file photo, minks that have been culled, at a farm in Farre in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark. Denmark’s prime minister says the government wants to cull all 15 million minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. She said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks. (Mette Moerk/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Maria van Kerkhove, head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force for World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to the media about the Situation regarding the new coronavirus, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

WHO investigating mink farming after mutated coronavirus spreads to humans

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Peter and Trine Brinkmann Nielsen put their flag to halfmast at the Norden mink farm, after the government called for the culling of minks, in Boerglum Kloster, Denmark. Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Denmark's prime minister says the government wants to cull all 15 million minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. She said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks. (Claus Bjoern Larsen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish farmers lament decision to cull all Denmark’s minks

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, minks in a farm in Gjoel in North Jutland, Denmark. Denmark’s prime minister says the government wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. She said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Denmark wants to cull 15 million minks over COVID fears

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Police and journalists outside a court in Glostrup, Denmark, where convicted murderer Peter Madsen will appear after his Tuesday's escape attempt, Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, 2020. A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison on Tuesday. (Photo: Liselotte Sabroe / Scanpix 2020)

Danish sub killer denies he had help in prison break attempt

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A police office watches Peter Madsen as he sits on the side of a road after being apprehended following a failed escape attempt in Albertslund, Denmark, Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. The self-taught Danish engineer, who was convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine in 2017 before dismembering her body and dumping it at sea, on Tuesday was captured after attempted prison escape outside the suburban Copenhagen jail where he is serving life-time sentence. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish sub killer recaptured after attempted prison escape

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press