Posts tagged Denmark
Meet Morten Bødskov, Denmark’s refined law-man.
Cartoon by Marco Villard.
It is beginning to look like Bahrain’s ruling family has calculated correctly that its close allies in Washington, London, and Brussels do not care enough about al-Khawaja to risk challenging al-Khalifa hard-liners and their Saudi allies by publicly pushing for his release or by making clear that Bahrain’s continued stonewalling will have a price.
Lotte Leicht of Human Rights Watch, on the plight of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
SUCCESS Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of the Social Democrats, celebrates after the Danish election. Her party and its centre-left allies emerged victorious from the election, ending ten years of Liberal-Conservative rule and producing the country’s first female prime minister.
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North Yorkshire, England (by mark deal 1)
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“[W]e tend to think of the information age as something entirely new. In fact, people have been wrestling with information for many centuries. If I...”
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Marble Bridge, Copenhagen, Denmark (by IvanNaurholm )
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This searing, deeply sympathetic portrait of young men fighting for their lives is regarded as the single greatest photographic achievement to...
