Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, looked like he was being chased by an angry musk ox. “Mr Prime Minister, have you spoken to President Trump yet?” I asked as he fled a ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the suggestion in response to President Donald Trump's "clean out" Gaza proposal.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to 200—was that Camp Century was a cover for a secret Cold War Army project. Unknown even to Greenland’s Danish government,
Trump’s bid for the Arctic territory was laughed off as a joke. Now, it’s gaining traction and provoking jitters in Europe.
Greenland, thrown into the geopolitical limelight amid renewed interest from Donald Trump, may still need several years to arrange a referendum on independence, according to a senior lawmaker in the Danish parliament.
The president is increasingly threatening other countries with tariffs for issues that have little to do with trade.
Even if Greenland were for sale, buying the Artic territory would be complicated. And French President Emmanuel Macron promises to renovate the Louvre, which is falling into disrepair.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump suggested the United States “buy Greenland” — as a matter of national security. Now in office again, Trump has continued to push for acquisition of the island, illustrated by a recent “horrendous” call with Denmark’s Prime Minister just last week on the matter.
There’s a classic Charlie Daniels Band song that comes to mind when musing on the supine strangeness of these times. It’s called “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and it’s been on my mind ever since I heard U.
Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at minus 43 degrees Celsius (minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit).