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Copenhagen police believe man shot dead was sole perpetrator of attacks

Copenhagen police said on Feb. 15 they  believe a man shot dead by officers was responsible for two fatal attacks that shocked the normally peaceful Danish capital.
      
The killings, coming little more than a month after bloody Islamist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead, were described by Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as "a cynical act of terror".

Double terror attack in Denmark leaves two dead; assailant also dead

The man who terrorized Danish capital Copenhagen on Saturday, by opening fire against two targets, a Free Speech event and a Synagogue, killing two people, is dead.

Early on Sunday, the Police identified the suspect near a train station. Realizing what was going on, the man opened fire. The police officers fired back and shot the man dead.

Jewish Man Dead in Second Copenhagen Attack, Police Kill Shooter

A man who opened fire on police and who might have been involved in two attacks that took place in Copenhagen has been killed, authorities say.

On Saturday and the small hours of Sunday, two people died and a few others were wounded after a man opened fire at two locations in the Danish capital.

Man Killed in Copenhagen at Event Linked to Muhammad cartoonist

A 40-year-old man was killed in Copenhagen Saturday when  a cafe, the site of a freedom of speech event, came under fire, Danish police said.

The event was organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had been threatened several times for drawing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad eight years ago.

The unknown assailants have managed to flee in a car after the shooting.

 

Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed, only gold, silver & bronze winner at Bocuse d'Or gastronomy contest

Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed won in 2005 the bronze in the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition - considered the "World Cup" of haute cuisine masters; he was back in 2007 to claim the silver and four years later, in 2011, he walked away with the gold statuette, thus becoming the only competitor to boast in his record all three trophies of this prestigious event.

Confessions of a recovering 'Erdo?an enabler'

Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, published a notable piece a couple of weeks ago in the magazine Commentary. Titled, ?Erdo?an?s Willing Enablers,? this was a bold critique of some Turkish writers, including myself, who allegedly enabled the ?authoritarian, repressive regime? of President Tayyip Erdo?an.

Ten years on

Dec. 16, 2014 was an important anniversary in Turkey's long and arduous road to the EU. Ten years ago on that day, the EU Council agreed that Turkey sufficiently fulfilled the Copenhagen political criteria and was ready to start accession negotiations with the EU for full membership.

Bulgaria Air in Codeshare Deal with Germany's airberlin

Airberlin, Germany's second largest airline, and Bulgaria Air will launch codeshare flights on some European routes from January 14 next year, austrianaviation.net has reported.

Under the codeshare agreement, airberlin will apply its AB airline code on Bulgaria Air flights from Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna to Sofia.

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