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'Fundamental disagreement' over Greenland after US talks: Danish official

Denmark's foreign minister said Wednesday that a fundamental disagreement over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after talks in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But the two sides agreed to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a US takeover of Denmark's Arctic territory of Greenland. Trump is trying to make the case that NATO should help the US acquire the world's largest island and says anything less than it being under American control is unacceptable. Denmark has announced plans to boost the country's military presence in the Arctic and North Atlantic as Trump tries to justify his calls for a US takeover of the vast territory by repeatedly claiming that China and Russia have their designs on Greenland. Denmark is ready to explore what is doable' on Greenland, even amid disagreements with the US Leaders from Denmark and Greenland say they don't agree with Trump on t

US looks to take over Greenland in 'weeks or months', says Trump aide

Senior US official claims swift movement is possible on Greenland, but the island's leader and Denmark have firmly rejected any takeover, stressing sovereignty amid Arctic tensions

Britain in talks with Nato allies to counter Russia, China in Arctic

Britain is discussing with NATO allies how it can help beef up security in the Arctic to counter threats from Russia and China, a government minister said Sunday. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the talks are business as usual rather than a response to recent threats by US President Donald Trump to take over Greenland. Trump said Friday that he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region of NATO ally Denmark, to prevent Russia or China from taking it over. We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not, Trump said Friday. Greenland, with a population of around 57,000, is defended by Denmark, whose military is dwarfed by that of the US, which has a military base on the island. Denmark's prime minister has warned that a takeover would threaten NATO. Tensions have grown between the US and Denmark since the Trump administration renewed its warnings against Greenland. Jesper Moller Sorensen, Denmark's ambassador to the US, fir

Why Nato was formed and how Trump's Greenland push tests the alliance

As Donald Trump revives calls for US control of Greenland, Nato faces rare internal strain. Here's how the alliance was born, how its role evolved, and why allies are alarmed

Greenland leaders firmly reject Trump's push for US control of island

Greenland's party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump's repeated calls for the US to take control of the island, saying that Greenland's future must be decided by its people. We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement Friday night. Trump said again on Friday that he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region that's part of NATO ally Denmark, the easy way. He said that if the US doesn't own it, then Russia or China will take it over, and the US does not want them as neighbours. If we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way, Trump said, without explaining what that entailed. The White House said it is considering a range of options, including using military force, to acquire the island. Greenland's party leaders reiterated that Greenland's future must be decided by the Greenlandic people. As ...

Trump won't rule out military force to acquire Greenland: White House

Trump is considering many ways of achieving his goal of acquiring the Arctic island, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement

Trump's Greenland logic spells trouble for Europe, threatens Nato unity

While Greenland is a self-ruling territory, with the local government controlling most domestic issues, Denmark oversees the Arctic island's defense and security

US takeover of Greenland would mark end of Nato, says Danish PM Frederiksen

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to US President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under US control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela. The dead-of-night operation by US forces in Caracas to capture leader Nicols Maduro and his wife early Saturday left the world stunned, and heightened concerns in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO. Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart, Jens Frederik Nielsen, blasted the president's comments and warned of catastrophic consequences. Numerous European leaders expressed solidarity with them. If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 on Monday. That is, including our NATO and .

Nato intel suspects Russia developing weapon to target Starlink satellites

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called zone-effect weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems. Analysts who haven't seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable chaos in space for companies and countries, including Russia and its ally China, that rely on thousands of orbiting satellites for communications, defence, and other vital needs. Such repercussions, including risks to its own space systems, could steer Moscow away from deploying or using such a weapon,

Russia unleashes massive drone, missile attack on Ukraine as talks continue

Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after US and Ukrainian officials said they'll meet on Saturday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war. Russia used 653 drones and 51 missiles in the wide-reaching attack, which triggered air raid alerts across the country and came as Ukraine marked Armed Forces Day, the country's air force said Saturday morning. Ukrainian forces shot down and neutralised 585 drones and 30 missiles, the air force said, adding that 29 locations were struck. At least eight people were wounded in the attacks, Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said. Among these, at least three people were wounded in the Kyiv region, according to local officials. Drone sightings were reported as far west as Ukraine's Lviv region. Russia carried out a massive missile-drone attack on power stations and other energy infrastructure in several Ukrainian regions, Ukraine's national energy opera

US gives Europe until 2027 to lead Nato Defence capabilities: Report

If European allies don't meet this deadline, the US could stop participating in some of NATO's coordination mechanism, according to the report

Ukraine's Nato membership 'key question' in talks with US: Kremlin aide

Moscow insists that Ukraine must never be permitted to enter the Western military alliance, calling it a core security concern

How Europe's private drone industry eyes opportunity as Nato boosts defence

In a warehouse more than 1,500 kilometres from Ukraine's capital, workers in northern Denmark painstakingly piece together anti-drone devices. Some of the devices will be exported to Kyiv in the hopes of jamming Russian technology on the battlefield, while others will be shipped across Europe in efforts to combat mysterious drone intrusions into NATO's airspace that have the entire continent on edge. Two Danish companies whose business was predominantly defense-related now say they have a surge in new clients seeking to use their technology to protect sites like airports, military installations and critical infrastructure, all of which have been targeted by drone flyovers in recent weeks. Weibel Scientific's radar drone detection technology was deployed ahead of a key EU summit earlier this year to Copenhagen Airport, where unidentified drone sightings closed the airspace for hours in September. Counter-drone firm MyDefence, from its warehouse in northern Denmark, builds handheld, .

Romania finds possible drone fragments after Russian strikes on Ukraine

Possible drone fragments were found inside Romania's southeastern border region following Russian strikes on Ukrainian Danube River ports overnight, the Romanian Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. Romanian radars detected groups of drones near the NATO country's airspace just after midnight Tuesday, prompting the ministry to issue an alert to residents of the southeastern region. Weather conditions did not allow for fighter jets to be deployed, the defence ministry said, but military teams were able to recover possible drone fragments some 5 kilometres (3 miles) inside Romania's border with Ukraine. Breaches of Romania's airspace by drones have become increasingly frequent in recent months as Russia targets Ukrainian Danube River ports just across the border. Officials have stated that samples collected from sites where drone fragments were found have been similar to those used by the Russian army. Romania and Poland are now deploying a new weapons system to defend against Russia

US to scale back troop presence on NATO's eastern flank, says Romania

The US military said the decision not to replace departing American troops in Romania was not 'an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to NATO'

New Nato members Finland and Sweden to buy more US arms for Ukraine

NATO's two newest members, Finland and Sweden, said Wednesday that they would buy more weapons from the United States to give to Ukraine, a day after data showed that foreign military aid to the war-torn country had declined sharply in recent months. Over the summer, NATO started to coordinate regular deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine to help fend off Russia's war. The aim was to send at least one load a month of targeted and predictable military support, each worth around USD 500 million. Spare weapons stocks in European arsenals have all but dried up, and NATO diplomats have said that the United States has around USD 10-USD 12 billion worth of arms, air defence systems and ammunition that Ukraine could use. Under the financial arrangement known as the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL European allies and Canada are buying American weapons to help Kyiv keep Russian forces at bay. About USD 2 billion worth has already been allocated. Finland's defence .

Trump mulls arming Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles: What makes them lethal?

Trump is considering supplying Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine, a move that could mark a sharp policy shift and give Kyiv a new edge in its counter-offensive

Trump suggests tossing Spain out of Nato over low defence spending

Spain previously earned Trump's ire when it rejected the US call at the Nato Summit in June to increase defence spending to 5% of national GDP, becoming the only nation in alliance to reject new goal

Hungary clings to Russian oil, gas as EU, NATO push to cut supplies

As the European Union pushes to fully sever its reliance on Russian energy and the administration of US President Donald Trump urges NATO members to abandon Russian oil, one country's populist government stands firm. Hungary and its leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbn, have long argued Russian energy imports are indispensable for the country's economy and switching to fossil fuels sourced from elsewhere would cause an immediate economic collapse. Orbn, who has long had the friendliest ties to the Kremlin of any EU leader, has vigorously opposed the bloc's efforts to sanction Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and blasted attempts to hit Russia's energy revenues that help finance the war. As the rest of Europe has weaned off Russian energy, Hungary has maintained, and even increased, its Russian imports, insisting no viable alternative exists. But some energy experts as well as Orbn's critics, who see his commitment to Russian energy as a symptom of his affinity