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Emergency services personnel stand behind a police cordon on February 15, 2015, close to Norrebro station in Copenhagen, where the alleged offender of a terrorist attack, was killed. (AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / MARTIN SYLVEST)

Police kill man believed behind 2 shootings in Copenhagen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 15, 2015 | World

Copenhagen, AP—Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing two men, including a member of Denmark’s Jewish community. Five police officers were...

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Emergency services gather outside a venue after shots were fired where an event titled “Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression” was being held in Copenhagen, on February 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Janus Engel)

One dead after shootout at Danish meeting with controversial artist Vilks

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 14, 2015 | World

One civilian was killed and three police were wounded on Saturday in shooting at a public meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen attended by the controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, police and the Danish Ritzau news agency reported. Danish police confirmed one...

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A policeman inspects a damaged vehicle at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, August 22, 2013. Four people were wounded in the attack, police said. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed

New Kirkuk–Ceyhan oil pipeline nearly complete

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 22, 2013 | Business

Oslo and Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Norwegian oil company DNO International announced on Wednesday that a new pipeline, which will carry crude oil from the autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq to Turkey, was almost complete. The pipeline project has angered the central...