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...went on strike, climaxing a three-day series of walkouts by public-sector workers protesting job cuts and pay freezes. Rail services were disrupted mid-week; on Thursday, tens of thousands of demonstrators brought Paris, Marseilles and other city centers to a standstill. Snap Judgement DENMARK Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called early parliamentary elections for Feb. 8, nine months ahead of the deadline. Opinion polls suggest that Rasmussen's center-right alliance, which has been a staunch ally of the U.S-led war in Iraq, will be returned to power. Glimmer of Hope MIDDLE EAST Palestinian police began patrolling...
...survived. Tens of thousands of Europeans - including an especially large number escaping the wintertime darkness of Scandinavia - were enjoying the Asian sunshine when the tsunami hit. Hundreds are confirmed dead - Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Frenchmen, Britons, Germans, Danes and on and on - with thousands still missing. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke of "an incomprehensible tragedy of national...
...that it knew there were no WMD in Iraq before joining the U.S-led war last year. The charges come from a Danish intelligence officer, Major Frank Söholm Grevil, who lost his job last month after leaking intelligence assessments to a newspaper. Grevil maintains that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen received at least 10 reports before the start of the war suggesting the coalition was unlikely to discover WMD. Fogh Rasmussen later informed parliament that he was convinced Iraq had the weapons. Grevil told Time that his doubts were raised by three reports, "one American and two British, [which...
Because of the disparity with other European states on the rate of asylum acceptance, the government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says it hopes the European Union will adopt a common asylum policy for all member states. That would make it easier for Denmark to legally block more refugees from ending up in the country. The government hopes asylum seekers like Adirazak Mohamud will take their dreams somewhere else...
...scouting vehicles on the ground. DENMARK Shift to the Right Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen conceded defeat to a conservative coalition in a snap election from which he'd hoped to benefit but which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won more seats than the outgoing Social Democrats for the first time since 1920, after Denmark's 4 million voters rallied behind allied parties seeking to protect the country's generous welfare system. KOSOVO Elections, at Last Ethnic Albanians turned out in high numbers to vote for the province's first...