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Jan M. Olsen

Holyfield eyes a championship bout

Last updated Monday, May 2, 2011 - 4:27pm

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is hoping to line up a world championship fight if he can beat Brian Nielsen in a non-title bout Saturday.

The 48-year-old Holyfield (43-10-2), who held the world heavyweight title four times, arrived in Denmark on Sunday for the bout at Copenhagen's concert hall and said he wouldn't be fighting if he wasn't ready.

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5 arrested in plot to attack prophet cartoon paper

Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 10:38am

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said.

Denmark's intelligence service said it arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the capital, Copenhagen, and seized an automatic weapon, a silencer and ammunition. Swedish police said they arrested a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.

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