Denmark, Canada and Ice Hockey World Championships
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Denmark raises retirement age to highest in world
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Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds left and Denmark stunned Canada 2-1 at the ice hockey world championship Thursday to advance to the semifinals. “I have no words, it’s unbelievable,” Olesen said after Denmark reached the last four for the first time.
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70. Parliamentarians passed a bill mandating the rise on Thursday, with 81 votes in favor and 21 against.
The Swiss blanked Denmark 7-0 to reach the gold medal game for the second straight year. Switzerland has never won the worlds.
The Danish Embassy last month retained Mercury Public Affairs, the K Street home of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles before she joined the administration.
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Denmark's miraculous comeback from a goal down to beat superpower Canada in the Midtjylland town of Herning to reach the semi-finals of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship was a result so seismic that not even the Danish players could believe what they had done.
Every June, the country’s political elite quit Copenhagen to ‘listen and reflect’ on the dreamy island of Bornholm — and it’s a treat for holidaymakers too
Women Artists Push Boundaries of Art with solo exhibitions at ARKEN Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish artist prodigy Eva Helene Pade and French artist Margeurite Humeau present first exhibitions in Scandinavia.
Denmark, a global leader in wind power, spent five months licking its wounds after a failed auction for offshore turbines delivered a blow to expand even further.
Denmark has raised concerns after discovering unlisted components in East Asian circuit boards intended for its green power grid, echoing similar US findings of potential "kill switches" in Chinese solar equipment.