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Trump Says Russian Threat Will Be Removed From Greenland Immediately
Donald Trump threatened to levy sweeping tariffs on key European allies unless the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a transatlantic confrontation that EU leaders say violates existing trade understandings and challenges the sovereignty of the Danish realm.
In a post on his social media platform, Mr. Trump said Denmark had “not been able to do anything to get the ‘Russian threat’ away from Greenland,” adding: “Now it is time, and it will be done!” He claimed “NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years,”…
Trump vows to remove ‘Russian threat’ from Greenland immediately
Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland push; EU weighs retaliation, calls emergency summit
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS — Former U.S. President Donald Trump escalated a brewing transatlantic clash by vowing new tariffs on key European allies unless the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, drawing swift coordination in Brussels and an extraordinary EU leaders’ meeting set for Thursday.
Trump said Denmark had failed to counter what he called a “Russian threat” in Greenland, the autonomous Arctic territory of the Kingdom of…
Tariff threats may ignite worst crisis yet in US-EU relations
Trump’s latest tariff threat — a 10% levy on select European nations, rising to 25% by June unless he “gets control of Greenland” — has turned a running spectacle into a high-stakes test of transatlantic relations, Federal Reserve independence and political resolve in Washington. The move over Greenland, paired with a drumbeat of domestic legal offensives, signals not a passing provocation but a strategy designed to force binary outcomes: he wins or he loses, Europe wins or it loses. There is little middle ground left.
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Irish citizen held in Russia for alleged anti-Russian phone texts
Irish citizen with dual Russian nationality detained in Russia over phone messages, wife says
An Irish citizen with dual Russian nationality has been detained in Russia since August after authorities found messages on his phone that expressed anti-Russian sentiment, according to his Ukrainian wife, who is appealing to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs for help.
Daria Petrenko, who fled Ukraine at the start of the war and now lives in Claregalway, Co Galway, said her husband, 49-year-old Dmitri Simbaev, was stopped…
Drone strikes knock out power in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region
Ukrainian and Russian drone strikes battered energy infrastructure and residential areas on both sides of the front, leaving more than 200,000 people without power in occupied Zaporizhzhia and killing at least two across Ukraine, as U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Miami to discuss security guarantees and a post-war recovery package.
In Ukraine’s southeast, a Ukrainian drone strike cut electricity to more than 200,000 consumers in the Russian-held portion of the Zaporizhzhia region, according to Moscow-installed regional…
Raging Chile wildfires claim 16 lives, spur mass evacuations
SANTIAGO, Chile — President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe in two southern regions of Chile as fast-moving wildfires killed at least 16 people and forced nearly 20,000 residents to evacuate, authorities said.
Chile’s national forestry agency, CONAF, reported 24 active fires burning across the country, with the largest and most dangerous blazes in the regions of Ñuble and Biobío, about 500 kilometers south of the capital. The emergency designation aims to speed the government’s response as crews contend with…
What’s driving Europe’s hard line in Greenland’s icy frontier
Analysis: Europe draws a line in the Arctic as Trump presses bid to take Greenland
The image raced across social media: Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, stepping out of the White House and wordlessly fishing a cigarette from a pack. He lit up, then offered both pack and lighter to his Greenlandic counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt. The optics matched the moment. Inside, a meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had gone sideways, and a thin diplomatic accord collapsed almost as…
Why Europe Is Taking a Firm Stand in Greenland’s Arctic
Outside the White House, Denmark’s foreign minister jogged toward a car, fished out a pack of cigarettes and lit up. The video went viral: Lars Løkke Rasmussen, smoke curling from his lips, wordlessly offering a cigarette and lighter to his Greenlandic counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt. The moment captured the mood of a week in which Europe, Denmark and Greenland were forced to contemplate something once unthinkable — deterring the United States from taking Greenland.
“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” Rasmussen…
Leaders hail Mercosur trade pact as prosperity driver before signing
EU-Mercosur trade deal to be signed in Paraguay as Lula, von der Leyen hail ‘prosperity’ and multilateralism
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday hailed the European Union–Mercosur trade deal as a pivotal step for prosperity and rules-based cooperation, ahead of a planned signing in Asuncion on Saturday after 25 years of negotiations.
Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Lula called the agreement “very good, especially for the democratic world and for…
EU ambassadors convene following Trump’s threat to impose tariffs
EU ambassadors will convene an emergency meeting later today after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened escalating tariffs on key European allies unless the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, jolting transatlantic relations and trade.
Cyprus, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency, called the meeting for 5 p.m. in Brussels (4 p.m. in Dublin), according to EU diplomats. It was not immediately clear what authority Trump would invoke to impose tariffs of up to 25% on European goods.
In a post on Truth…