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Donald Trump Jr. poses for a photo in Greenland on January 7 in this photo posted to his X account
Danish officials fear Trump is serious about acquiring Greenland 
COPENHAGEN — When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.Now, Danish officials are being warned by Trump allies and advisers that he is serious, multiple Danish officials told CNN. And they’re carefully weighing how to respond without sparking a major rupture with a close ally and fellow NATO member.“The ecosystem supporting this idea is totally different now” than it was in 2019, when Trump first proposed it, said one senior Danish official. “This seems much more serious,” said another senior Danish official.Trump said on Tuesday that “we need Greenland for national security purposes.”“People really don’t even know if Denmark...
January 09, 2025

Danish officials fear Trump is serious about acquiring Greenland 

A huge fire rises from an oil depot in Engels, Russia, after a Ukrainian drone strike overnight into Wednesday
Ukraine says it attacked fuel depot serving Russian strategic bombers’ air base
KYIV — Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia in an overnight attack targeting an oil facility serving a military airfield in the city of Engels, nearly 400 miles from the border, Ukraine’s military said Wednesday.Ukrainian officials reported a huge fire at the Kombinat Kristall oil depot, which provides fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield in the Saratov region, where Russia’s strategic bomber fleet is located.At least two Russian firefighters were killed while responding to the fire, Roman Busargin, governor of Saratov region, said in a post on Telegram Wednesday. Another specialist was hospitalized, Busargin said.Images geolocated by CNN showed large balls of flames lighting up the night sky and plumes of smoke continuing to billow from the site on Wednesday morning.“The...
January 09, 2025

Ukraine says it attacked fuel depot serving Russian strategic bombers’ air base

Slovakian soldiers stand by a gun of the Mantis (Modular, Automatic and Network Capable Targeting and Interception System) air defense weapon system
German politicians rebuke Trump over NATO defense spending demand
BERLIN — Several politicians in Germany have pushed back against US President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that NATO's European members should spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, more than double the current target.On Tuesday evening, Trump said that NATO nations were spending too little on defense and complained that "Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we're in"."They can all afford it, but they should be at 5%, not 2%," Trump told reporters at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.None of the alliance's 32 members are currently spending 5% of GDP on defense, according to NATO data. Poland is the biggest spender by share of GDP at 4.12%, followed by Estonia at 3.43% and the US at 3.38%.Ralf...
January 08, 2025

German politicians rebuke Trump over NATO defense spending demand

Alexander Schallenberg
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to become caretaker chancellor
VIENNA — Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will be named caretaker chancellor on Wednesday, taking over from outgoing Karl Nehammer, who quit after the first post-election coalition talks collapsed.Schallenberg previously acted as Austrian chancellor in 2021 after Sebastian Kurz stepped down amidst corruption allegations.Austria’s conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)-led government will remain in power as caretakers until a new coalition is formed.Far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl’s party secured victory in recent parliamentary elections, winning 28.8% of the vote and surpassing outgoing Nehammer’s ÖVP, which came in second.However, the ÖVP refused to enter a coalition with the FPÖ under Kickl – leading to a political stalemate.Efforts...
January 08, 2025

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to become caretaker chancellor

Donald Trump Jr., center, gestures as he arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025
Trump Jr arrives in Greenland amid father's interest in seizing the island
NUUK — Donald Trump Jr arrived in Greenland on Tuesday amid a controversy sparked by his father, US President-elect Donald Trump.Trump has expressed on numerous occasions his desire to acquire the Arctic country and bring it under US ownership. The incoming US president has floated the idea of purchasing the country from Denmark, a proposal that was swiftly and harshly rejected by Copenhagen, who stressed that Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland, and that the country is not for sale.After Trump Jr’s arrival in Greenland, Donald Trump added to the controversy. In a press conference at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, just two weeks before he assumes the presidency for his second term, Trump doubled down expressing his continued interest in seizing control of the country under the...
January 08, 2025

Trump Jr arrives in Greenland amid father's interest in seizing the island

Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96
French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96
PARIS — French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96, according to a family statement shared with AFP.Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on Tuesday "surrounded by his loved ones", the family said.Le Pen - a Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration - founded the French far-right National Front party in 1972.He reached the presidential election-run off against Jacques Chirac in 2002.Le Pen's daughter, Marine, took over as party chief in 2011. She has since rebranded the party as National Rally, turning it into one of France's main political forces.Jordan Bardella, who succeeded Marine Le Pen as party chair in 2022, said Jean-Marie had "always served France" and...
January 07, 2025

French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96

An image taken from social media and supplied by the Reuters news agency appears to show a soldier holding up a Russian flag in Kurakhove
Russia claims capture of Ukrainian front-line town
MOSCOW — Russia claims that its forces have captured the front-line town of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.The town has borne the brunt of Russian advances in recent months and is a stepping-stone to the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk.Ukraine has not acknowledged the fall of Kurakhove, which is 35km (21 miles) south of Pokrovsk.Fierce fighting has also been under way in Russia's Kursk region in recent days after Ukraine launched a counter-attack on Sunday.An image taken from social media and supplied by the Reuters news agency appears to show a soldier holding up a Russian flag in Kurakhove. The image has not been verified by the BBC.Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces, told Reuters news agency that, as of Monday morning,...
January 07, 2025

Russia claims capture of Ukrainian front-line town

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks at the federal delegates' conference of the Greens party in Wiesbaden, Germany, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
Germany's Greens, CSU kick off election campaigns ahead of 23 February vote
BERLIN — The Greens have kicked off their electoral campaign starting with a tour of the German city of Lübeck.The first rally was headlined by the outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Member of the Bundestag Felix Banaszak, direct candidate for the Bundestag Bruno Hönel and Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck.The Greens had expected 600 people to show up to the event, but over 1,200 supporters attended.Incumbent Vice-Chancellor Habeck was quick to attack previous federal governments under the Union’s; Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), leadership, blaming them for current problems in the country.While acknowledging that the ruling ‘traffic light coalition’ (coalition of Social Democratic Party (SPD), Free...
January 07, 2025

Germany's Greens, CSU kick off election campaigns ahead of 23 February vote

Sir Nick - pictured here with Mark Zuckerberg - leaves Meta at a time when Silicon Valley leaders seek to court Trump
Nick Clegg leaves Meta ahead of Trump's return as US president
LONDON — Former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg is to step down from his current job as president of global affairs at social media giant Meta.In a post on Meta's Facebook on Thursday, Sir Nick, a former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said he was departing the company after nearly seven years.He will be replaced by his current deputy and Republican Joel Kaplan, who previously served as deputy chief of staff in the White House during President George W Bush's administration, and is known for handling the company's relations with Republicans.He added that he would spend "a few months handing over the reins" and representing Facebook at international gatherings before moving on to "new adventures".Sir Nick's resignation comes just weeks before...
January 03, 2025

Nick Clegg leaves Meta ahead of Trump's return as US president

Police officers put out the fire in the streets after the fireworks for the New Year's celebrations in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025
German officials call for illegal firework ban after five deaths and riots
BERLIN — German officials have called for restrictions on illegal fireworks as well as harsher sentences for rioters attacking emergency workers after five people were killed, and dozens of civilians and police officers were injured across Germany on New Year's Eve.Officials have pointed particularly to the use of "kugelbomben" or bullet bombs — explosives that are legally restricted to professional firework displays — for the multiple injuries from fireworks across the country, including 17 in Berlin alone.“The severity of the injuries [this year] is unusual,” a spokesperson for the UKB hospital in Berlin, where small children were brought in for serious injuries from fireworks, told local media."For young men, it's no longer enough that it's the...
January 03, 2025

German officials call for illegal firework ban after five deaths and riots

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