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Danish nurses to end eight-week long strike after pay deal

Copenhagen - An eight-week long strike by Danish nurses and other health workers ends this weekend after a wage agreement was announced late Friday.

The Health Confederation that organizes nurses, midwives and laboratory personnel accepted a 13.3-per-cent pay rise for the coming three-year period, despite earlier demanding a 15-per-cent hike.

The municipal and local government association (KL) that organizes employers welcomed the settlement that means work will resume as normal as of midnight Saturday.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand patients have suffered during this, so I am very happy we have agreed," KL head Bent Hansen told reporters.

Danish premier: Denmark to wait for Dublin's assessment

DenmarkCopenhagen - As initial tallies suggested Irish voters had rejected the EU reform treaty, the Danish government Friday said it "regretted" the result.

Both Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller added that they "respected" the Irish vote.

Rasmussen added that he wanted to wait for Dublin's assessment of the outcome before deciding on Denmark's planned referendum on its current opt-outs from the European Union.

Denmark also wanted to discuss the outcome with other EU members, Rasmussen told reporters.

Parliament approves raise for Danish prince

Copenhagen  - The Danish parliament Tuesday approved an increase in the funds newly-wed Prince Joachim receives from the public purse.

Winner of Danish headscarf competition named

Copenhagen  - Iraqi-born Huda Falah on Tuesday won the Miss Headscarf 2008 title in a competition staged by Danish public broadcaster DR.

Human beings were as genetically diverse 2000 years ago as they are today

Copenhagen, June 10 : By studying human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds, forensic scientists have found that the Scandinavian race is not pure, which suggests that human beings w

Denmark to host meeting for nations bordering Arctic

DenmarkCopenhagen/Oslo - Nations bordering the Arctic were to meet Tuesday in weste

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