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The claim that the world is “not secure” unless the United States has Greenland is sweeping, but it taps a real and growing geopolitical truth: the Arctic island has moved from remote afterthought to a front line of 21st-century power politics. The strategic drama—rekindled when former President Donald Trump floated the idea of acquiring Greenland—sits at the intersection of climate change, great-power competition, rare-earth minerals, and the security architecture that binds North America and Europe. Greenland is not for…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said the world is “not secure” unless the United States has Greenland, reviving a politically charged debate over the vast Arctic territory’s strategic value and the limits of American influence in the High North. The remark echoes Trump’s 2019 push to explore purchasing Greenland from Denmark, an idea that strained relations with a key NATO ally. At the time, he canceled a planned state visit to Copenhagen after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the proposal “absurd,” and…

SYDNEY — A teenage boy was critically injured Sunday after a shark attack in Sydney Harbour, prompting beach closures and warnings to stay out of the water as authorities searched for the animal, police and state officials said. New South Wales Police said the boy, believed to be about 13 years old, was bitten off Shark Beach in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse. He suffered serious leg injuries. “The injuries are consistent with what is believed to have been a large shark,” police said in a statement. Officers pulled the boy…

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured when two passenger trains collided in southern Spain after one derailed near the town of Adamuz in the province of Córdoba, emergency services said. A police spokesman initially reported five dead but later raised the toll to 10. Authorities said more casualties were likely as rescue crews worked through mangled carriages and debris at the crash site. Spain’s rail infrastructure manager, ADIF, said a Málaga-to-Madrid service derailed and crossed onto the opposite…

Pentagon puts 1,500 Alaska soldiers on alert for possible deployment to Minnesota amid immigration protests The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota as protests mount over a deportation crackdown and the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, two U.S. officials said. The U.S. Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case unrest escalates in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, the officials…

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 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…

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. For…

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…

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…