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Somali Ax Man Gets 9 Years for Cartoonist Attack
By not in system - AOL NewsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Somali man convicted of terrorism for breaking into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The Aarhus city court ruled Friday that Muhideen Mohammed Geelle should be expelled from Denmark after serving the sentence. The 29-year-old entered cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home armed with an ax on New Year's Day 2010. Westergaard locked himself inside a panic room and was unharmed. Police arrived and shot Geelle in the leg. The court on Thursday found Geelle guilty of terrorism. Westergaard's ...
Danish Crown Princess Gives Birth to Twins
By Andra Varin - AOL NewsThe Danish royal family has two new members. And one of them is apparently being called after The King. Not the king of Denmark, which has a reigning queen, but the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Crown Princess Mary, the 38-year-old wife of the heir to the throne, gave birth Saturday to twins -- a boy and a girl. The boy was born at 10:40 a.m. and weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces. The girl arrived 26 minutes later and weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces. Sean Gallup, Getty Images Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary have added twins -- a boy and a girl -- to the royal ...
Oops! Royal Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction
By Andra Varin - AOL NewsSometimes, even an HRH needs to XYZ. Prince Henrik of Denmark suffered an embarrassing wardrobe function when he appeared with his wife, Queen Margrethe II, at the royals' gala New Year's party Saturday night at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. The 76-year-old prince consort was resplendent in formal dress and medals -- but His Royal Highness had neglected to zip the royal trousers. Bauer-Griffin Prince Henrik and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark arrive at Amelienborg Palace in Copenhagen for a New Year's party on Saturday night. Unfortunately, the prince had neglected to check his ...
5 Held in Alleged Terror Plot Against Danish Newspaper
By John O. Membrino - AOL NewsPolice arrested today five people in Denmark and Sweden who are suspected of plotting what authorities called "an imminent terror attack" against a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Danish intelligence chief Jakob Scharf said in a statement that the suspects "must be considered militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks," The New York Times reported. The suspects were planning to raid the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen and "kill as many as possible of the persons present," Scharf said. Violent protests ...
WikiLeaks Shadow Creeps Over Climate Talks
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CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 8) -- Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks indicating a desire by the United States to "co-opt or marginalize" countries holding opposing views on climate change have cast a shadow over an already difficult international conference on global warming wrapping up here this week. "We have always voiced throughout these years the pressures of the blackmail by the administration of the U.S.," Pablo Solon, Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters through an interpreter. "WikiLeaks just confirms that." Solon said the U.S., as a major economic power, "uses ...
Old Fights Plague Climate Talks in Cancun
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CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 6) -- Deep, longstanding divisions between industrialized powers and developing nations over how to fight global warming are festering as negotiators today begin their second week of talks on climate change. The developed world wants emerging economies like China and India to take a greater role in reducing carbon emissions, but those countries insist that rich nations have a "historic responsibility" to reduce greenhouse gases. Developing countries also argue that they will need to continue to depend on fossil fuels to help their economies grow. "We need three aspects ...
Obama Goes Quiet on Climate Change
By David Corn - Politics DailyIf I said "Cancun" to you, what would you think of? Beaches? Scantily clad bodies? Spring flings? If a year ago I had said "Copenhagen," many of the folks who visit this site would have thought, "That big climate change conference going on." Yet the follow-up conference to that gathering, now under way in Cancun, is invisible in the national media and political debate. Which is a clear indicator of a terrible development: Climate change is off the map. When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency, climate change was a top issue for him. Here he is campaigning in the fall of 2007 in New ...
Opinion: Why We Need to 'Cool It' on Global Warming
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(Nov. 12) -- For 20 years now, we've been debating what (if anything) we should do about global warming, with very little to show for it. Despite grandiose pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050, no meaningful international climate agreement has ever been reached and greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are higher than they've ever been. What's holding us back? I blame polarization -- the lack of any middle ground in the climate debate. As far as many activists are concerned, you either believe ...
One-Legged Boxer Suspected in Denmark Hotel Explosion
By not in system - AOL NewsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (Sept. 17) -- A one-legged Chechen boxer injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police said Friday. The device went off as the man was assembling it in a hotel bathroom on Sept. 10, said Svend Foldager, a police spokesman. The suspect received cuts to his face and no one else was injured. "We're dealing with a letter bomb. The bomb was completed. Apparently it was of a low-technology type, with a highly explosive substance inside," Foldager told ...
Voters Believe in Global Warming, But Differ on Signing a Climate Treaty
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA majority of voters believe the earth is getting warmer because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, but 28 percent oppose the U.S. signing a treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and another 30 percent say it should do so only if other nations make the same commitment, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Dec. 15-20. ...
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