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"The Losers' Triumph," Friday's headline in the Danish tabloid BT reads. Yesterday's elections demonstrate a shift to the right in the Scandinavian country. While the Social Democratic Party of current Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt won the most seats, her center-left coalition lost to the right-wing opposition.

She conceded defeat, as the right-wing nationalists of the Danish People's Party (DPP) shocked observers by winning the second highest number of seats, ahead of their possible coalition partners the Liberals, led by former — and possibly future — Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Rasmussen, the "triumphant loser," was punished by the electorate but saved by his coalition "friends", as BT reports today. Despite his disappointing third-place finish, it's likely that he'll have the opportunity to form a government, with or without the DPP.

ABOUT THE SOURCE: BT is a daily tabloid based in Copenhagen. It was founded in 1916.

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A New Calabrian Mob Alliance Sparks Shocking Violence — And More Women Victims

United to colonize the region’s north, two allied mob families from Calabria's 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate have resumed methods to establish themselves that have been abandoned for years. The result is as bloody as the Italian mob has been in memory.

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Italian Carabinieri involved in the arrest of 'Ndrangheta mob members

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CASSANO ALL’IONIO — Here in the northern reaches of Calabria, a new mob alliance is combining the old ‘ndrangheta and nomadic criminality that is distinguishing itself by its ferocity.

The ‘ndrina Abruzzese and the ‘ndrina Forastefano, two opposing coschemob families), who had been at war with each other in the early 2000s, have now allied to take over what remains of northern Calabria up to the border with the Basilicata region.

The 44 kilometers of Calabrian coastline between the towns of Villapiana and Rossano are bloodied by a war that hardly anyone talks about, and yet is still fresh.

Cruel, cynical, archaic, harsh: this new hybrid Calabrian mob is back to shooting people in the streets, and it doesn’t spare women. In one year, two have died, bringing the number of victims in the past 24 months to 15.

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