40 h. ago UK ally and NATO country preparing for 'war in two years' as WW3 fears grow

A German military commander has warned the nation must prepare for the possibility of Russia launching a full-scale aggressive war against NATO within just two to three years

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7 d. ago Olympics chief admits she has not spoken to US president Trump about LA 2028 Games

Kirsty Coventry steers clear of global politics in buildupOrganisers will meet with vice-president JD VanceThe International Olympic Committee has yet to establish formal communications with the US president Donald Trump on preparations for the Los Angeles Games in 2028, the IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, has confirmed.Trump has been speaking in Davos in Switzerland after a turbulent start to 2026 during which he has suggested he will invade Greenland, threatened a trade war with Europe and ousted the Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump drunk on his own reflection drops ultimate humiliation bombshell on Europe

Trump’s Davos rant exposed a narcissistic, reality-detached president who lied, threatened allies, fantasised about seizing Greenland and used a global stage to feed his own ego rather than lead

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8 d. ago The transatlantic order is crumbling. Greenland is a moment of great rupture | Christopher S Chivvis

Trump’s demand for Greenland is a throwback to the 1884 Berlin conference: a transaction of land and people driven by a might makes right worldviewThe announcement on 17 January that Washington will impose punitive tariffs of 10% to 25% on eight European allies – unless they facilitate the “complete and total purchase” of Greenland – is likely to be the death knell of the post-1945 transatlantic order. By linking the territorial sovereignty of a Nato ally to trade access, the US has transitioned from Europe’s security guarantor to a 19th-century imperial rent-seeker.This is a moment of profound rupture. For decades, the western world believed that raw imperialism had been relegated to the past among advanced industrial powers. Even China, for all its assertiveness, largely couches its ambitions in the language of revanchism – the “reclaiming” of lost territory. Washington’s current demand for Greenland, by contrast, is a throwback to the age of the 1884 Berlin conference: a transact...

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8 d. ago Davos: Reeves urges leaders to keep cool heads over tariff threat in free trade call – business live

Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where European Commission president says Europe must respond to geopolitical shocksFull report: Trump tariffs over Greenland are an error, says Ursula von der LeyenScott Bessent then denies that European Union countries, and the UK, could exercise the “nuclear option” over the Greenland crisis, and dump their holdings of US Treasuries.Asked how the Treasury Department, and the White House, would prepare for this, Bessent insists it is a “completely false narrative”, and claims the media are “hysterical” over the issue.I would say this is the same kind of hysteria that we heard on April 2nd. There was a panic.What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out.What president Trump is threatening on Greenland is very different than the other trade deals. So I would urge all countries to stick with their trade deals. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Davos: US treasury secretary Scott Bessent urges Europe not to retaliate over Greenland tariffs – business live

Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Bessent claims reports Europe could sell Treasury bonds is ‘completely false narrative’Scott Bessent then denies that European Union countries, and the UK, could exercise the “nuclear option” over the Greenland crisis, and dump their holdings of US Treasuries.Asked how the Treasury Department, and the White House, would prepare for this, Bessent insists it is a “completely false narrative”, and claims the media are “hysterical” over the issue.I would say this is the same kind of hysteria that we heard on April 2nd. There was a panic.What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out.What president Trump is threatening on Greenland is very different than the other trade deals. So I would urge all countries to stick with their trade deals. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Donald Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is an ‘act of great stupidity’ – live

US president says UK’s plan to hand over the islands to Mauritius is among the ‘reasons why Greenland has to be acquiredDonald Trump links Greenland threats to Nobel snub as EU trade war loomsThe US president, Donald Trump, has suggested Britain’s decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take over Greenland.In a Truth Social post, he said the UK’s plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”. He said:Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are International Powers who only recognize STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Scientists discover Greenland's 'Achilles heel' that could force Trump to rethink his Arctic playbook

A new study threatens to derail President Trump's dream for Greenland if it successfully becomes part of the US.

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9 d. ago The death of Davos: Trump prepares to 'punch allies in the head' as Greenland threat hangs over gathering of global elite

The president looms large over the annual gathering in Switzerland amid his push to acquire Greenland, the sprawling mineral-rich Arctic territory of NATO ally Denmark.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump drops chilling threat to NATO ally over Greenland

US President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister he 'no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace' and vowed he will soon have 'complete and total control' of Greenland

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1 week ago ‘Sovereignty of Greenland and Denmark cannot be violated’ – Irish premier

President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs unless a deal to buy Greenland is struck.

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1 week ago Trump tariffs: Everything to know as President threatens UK for opposing Greenland bid

Donald Trump has issued a stern warning that countries including the UK, France and Germany all face 10% tariffs being imposed if they do not get behind his plan to take control of Greenland

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1 week ago Trump tariffs LIVE: US President threatens UK for opposing Greenland takeover plan

"This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland," Donald Trump said in his threat against Denmark and its allies

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1 week ago Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing

A summit between Greenland, Denmark and Washington has done nothing to calm our fears as the US steps up its efforts to take control of my countryThe year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of the world’s biggest island, just like he did back in 2019 and in 2024/25. Yet it feels different this time.This time it seems as if there are more concrete plans being shaped within the Trump administration to annex Greenland. Trump wants to “take” it “whether they like it or not”, as he stated at a recent White House press conference. And the only option he seems to be offering currently is to do it “either the nice way or the more difficult way” – whatever that means. These are obviously plans for the forceful theft of Indigenous land and a self-governing territory; they are loud threats against our democracy – threats that are coming directly from the US president, again and again, through t...

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1 week ago Whether or not Trump invades Greenland, this much is clear: the western order we once knew is history | Timothy Garton Ash

The EU must be more robust in order to stem the tide of international disorder, or it risks falling to authoritarian imperialismDonald Trump is threatening to take over Greenland, the territory of a Nato ally, possibly by military force, as Vladimir Putin is trying to take over Ukraine. Even if he doesn’t actually do it, this is a new era: a post-western world of illiberal international disorder.The task now for liberal democracies in general, and Europe in particular, is twofold: to see this world as it is and to work out what the hell we’re going to do about it.Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Europe should prepare for world without US nuclear deterrence, former Nato chief warns

Trump’s threat to take Greenland, from a Nato ally, raises doubt on US commitment to extended nuclear deterrence across Europe

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3 w. ago Marco Rubio says he will meet Danish officials to discuss Greenland next week

Remarks by US secretary of state come after Greenland and Denmark request urgent meeting over Trump threatsEurope live – latest updatesThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, says he plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland, amid an escalating crisis within Nato over Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic territory.An urgent meeting had been requested by the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark, which has said that any invasion or seizure of the territory by its Nato ally would mark the end of the western military alliance and “post-second world war security”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Starmer defies Trump over Greenland after US president threatens Nato ally

Comes as former Supreme Court head Lord Sumption states that Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s president was ‘illegal’ and former attorney general Dominic Grieve describes the US president as ‘a serious and significant danger to world peace’

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3 w. ago Mapped: Every country Trump has threatened after capture of Venezuelan president Maduro

Trump has warned several countries, including Nato ally Denmark, that the U.S. is ready to prove America’s ‘dominance in the Western hemisphere’

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3 w. ago Starmer says he stands with Denmark after Trump’s threats over Greenland

Keir Starmer has insisted he will back a European ally in Nato over the US president’s expansionist ambitions

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