Greenland
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The United States needs to take control of Greenland for international security, President Donald Trump said in remarks at the Oval Office Friday as Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha, were visiting the island nation. “It’s not a question of do you think we can do without it,” Trump told reporters Friday, in…
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Múte B Egede sees the move as deliberately provocative, following Donald Trump’s threats to take control of the island. Greenland’s prime minister has hit out at a planned visit to the island by senior US officials, calling the move “highly aggressive” in light of Trump’s threats to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Múte…
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The 30-day pause in airstrikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that Donald Trump got Vladimir Putin to agree to lasted perhaps a few hours. The White House had claimed “we’ve never been closer to a peace deal” before the phone call between the two leaders yesterday. Instead, Mr Trump appears to have achieved little in his conversation with Mr Putin, whose…
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The French foreign minister said the bloc must become stronger after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to take control of Greenland. The EU will not allow other countries to attack its sovereign borders, France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military action to seize Greenland. Trump…
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Climate scientists describe Greenland as an open refrigerator door for a warming world. Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. Greenland is where climate change, scarce resources, tense geopolitics and new trade…
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The US president-elect has refused to rule out an attack on Greenland, a Danish self-governing island and NATO ally. Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to use military force to seize control of Greenland, a self-governing territory belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark, stoking tensions with his European allies. Denmark should cede the…
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President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become the only president since Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century to serve nonconsecutive terms.…
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