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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — It’s an inevitable fact of life for female politicians: people are bound to pay more attention to your looks, style and spouse than they would if you were a man.
Hillary Clinton is an obvious victim.
Another is Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark’s woman of the moment.
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All over the Swedish port city of Malmö last week there were gaggles of students clutching brand-new laptops given to them on loan for the start of the school year. As schools fight over what, due to a demographic blip, is a declining number of students, the device you get has become a keen area of competition.
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One man was killed and two more wounded in a shoot-out outside a mosque in central Copenhagen on Tuesday morning.
The attacks came as worshippers left morning prayers on Eid, the festival that ends the Muslim month of fasting.
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IKEA’s billionaire founder Ingvar Kamprad was a member of the Swedish Nazi party and was such a concern to secret service they opened a file on him, according to a new book.
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Vladimir Putin was asked to pressure Roman Abramovich to find a place on the Chelsea youth side for the grandson of Kazakhstan’s President, the boy’s estranged father has claimed.
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Turkmenistan has ambitions to turn a shining city on the Caspian Sea into tourism’s next Dubai. It has a long way to go, says Richard Orange.
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Sting has backed out of a concert in Kazakhstan to mark the President’s birthday, in protest at a government “crackdown” on striking oil workers.
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Royal Dutch Shell and its partners are to ask the Kazakh government for an extension to the 2013 deadline for the first oil from their troubled Kashagan field.
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A proposed law banning children from mosques in Tajikistan, could be “disastrous”, the world’s leading conflict prevention group has said, arguing it will fuel the growing security threat from a new generation of Islamic militants.
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Grigori Marchenko, who has pulled out of the race to run the IMF, was a reluctant contender who first he heard of his candidacy by text message on the day it was agreed at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the group of former Soviet countries.