2 h. ago ‘Canada lives because of the United States’: Trump takes shots at Mark Carney for being ‘ungrateful’

President said Canada benefits from U.S. protection, in wide-ranging speech in Davos, Switzerland

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2 h. ago Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances

As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?Davos live – latest updatesDonald Trump has told the Davos economic forum “without us, most countries would not even work”, but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US.Individually and collectively, they have decided “to live in truth” – the phrase used by the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and referenced by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his widely praised speech at Davos on Tuesday. They will no longer pretend the US is a reliable ally, or even that the old western alliance exists. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump threatens Carney at Davos: ‘Canada lives because of the US’

Donald Trump threatened Canada’s Mark Carney during his rambling Davos speech on Wednesday (21 January), where he claimed that the nation “only lives because of the United States”.

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5 h. ago ‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it hereToday I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago French government not in favour of World Cup 2026 boycott over Greenland threats

Minister says there is ‘no desire’ to boycott tournamentBut Coquerel says US should be stripped of World CupThe French government is not in favour of boycotting this year’s World Cup being co-hosted by the United States over Donald Trump’s Greenland threats, France’s sports minister has said.Trump has targeted France among the eight European countries threatened with tariffs for their opposition to his drive to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago In full: Mark Carney’s Davos speech as he warns of ‘rupture’ in world order after Trump threat

Mr Carney said Canada ‘strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland’ and supports Denmark’s sovereignty

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10 h. ago Mark Carney’s Davos speech in full as he warns of ‘rupture’ in world order after Trump threat

Mr Carney said Canada ‘strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland’ and supports Denmark’s sovereignty

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13 h. ago ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump

In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international normsFor much of Mark Carney’s career as an economist and central banker, he existed at the nexus of global thinkers and multilateral institutions. The “rockstar banker” was a fixture at summits, where he spoke beside business leaders and the political elite, espousing the values of international cooperation and the need for open economies and shared rules.But after less than a year as prime minister of Canada, Carney offered a blunter assessment of the world on Tuesday: “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Mark Carney tells Davos the old world order is ‘not coming back’ as Trump heads to Switzerland

Carney warns US-led global system of governance is enduring ‘a rupture’ as US president flies in for showdown with European leaders over GreenlandCanadian prime minister Mark Carney has said that the US-led global system of governance is enduring “a rupture,” defined by great power competition and a “fading” rules-based order.His speech to political and financial elites at the World Economic Forum comes a day before US President Donald Trump was set to address the gathering in Davos, Switzerland. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Trump warns Iran the whole country will be 'blown up' if he is assassinated

President Donald Trump threatened to blow up the entire country of Iran 'if something happens,' when asked about the threats to his life airing on Iranian state television.

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20 h. ago Donald Trump's craziest moments from 12 months of utter chaos back in White House

Since being re-elected, Trump has invaded one country, threatened another, nicked a gold medal that wasn't his and caused a row with his closest allies... and that's just this month!

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24 h. ago Canada PM Mark Carney gets standing ovation at Davos as he warns of world order ‘rupture’

He rebuked ‘great powers’ but did not mention Trump despite global outcry over the US’ aggressive moves on Greenland

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24 h. ago Nervous rex: the Davos elite brace for Trump and his dinosaur diplomacy

Leaders of EU, France and Canada stake out positions on Greenland ahead of US president’s speech to World Economic Forum“There’s no diplomacy with Donald Trump: he’s a T rex. You mate with him or he devours you.” Debate at the World Economic Forum annual meetings high in the Swiss Alps is usually scrupulously polite, but as this year’s gathering got under way in Davos on Tuesday, California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, had this blunt advice for handling the week’s star speaker.The US president was yet to arrive but throughout the blond wood congress centre the hottest topic among the global elite of business and politics – on and off conference stages – was Trump’s intemperate attack on European allies, threatening punitive tariffs if they fail to let him annex Greenland. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Donald Trump’s threatened trade war leaves his UK supporters flirting with treason

Being on a supporter of an enemy of your country in a war – trade or real – is never a wise move

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27 h. 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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27 h. ago What is Davos 2026, who is attending and what is on the agenda?

Global political and business leaders will seek influence and prestige at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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30 h. ago UK must 'prepare for war with United States' as WW3 edges closer than ever before

Former NATO commander Sir Richard Shirreff has warned Britain must prepare for the worst-case scenario of fighting US forces over Greenland as Donald Trump threatens tariffs and shows no sign of backing down

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31 h. ago EU's von der Leyen condemns Trump and vows to build a 'new independent Europe' ahead of confrontation with US President as he flies into Davos after Greenland row

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has blasted US President Donald Trump for threatening to hit his European allies with tariffs over Greenland.

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32 h. ago Trump has threatened Europe with higher tariffs. What happens now?

US President Donald Trump has threatened eight European countries with tariffs in his bid to claim Greenland

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32 h. ago Newsom roasts ‘pathetic’ world leaders over Trump appeasement: ‘I should have brought knee pads’

Gavin Newsom has often threatened to send kneepads to political opponents who do Donald Trump’s bidding

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