Category: World

A letter sent by US President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre claiming the United States must have “complete and total control of Greenland” has drawn strong criticism from The Atlantic, which said the remarks show a president “living in a different reality” and risk serious damage to American alliances. In the letter, Trump said that because Norway had “decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS,” he no longer felt obliged to think “purely of Peace” and would instead act…

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Iran may lift its internet blackout in a few days, a senior parliament member said on Monday, after authorities shut communications while using massive force to crush protests in the worst domestic unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In the latest sign of weakness in the authorities’ control, state television appeared to be hacked late on Sunday, briefly showing speeches by United States President Donald Trump and the exiled son of Iran’s last shah calling on the public to revolt. Iran’s streets have largely been quiet for a week, authorities…

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NUUK: Donald Trump no longer needs to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for a Nobel, the US president said in comments published on Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland. Trump has put the transatlantic alliance to the test with threats to take over Greenland “one way or the other”, as European countries close ranks against Washington’s designs on the vast Danish autonomous territory. German and French leaders denounced as “blackmail” weekend threats by Trump to wield new tariffs against countries which oppose…

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India signed a $3 billion deal on Monday to buy liquefied natural gas from the United Arab Emirates, making it the UAE’s top customer, as the leaders of both countries held talks to strengthen trade and defence ties. The agreement was signed during a very brief two-hour visit to India by UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They pledged to double bilateral trade to $200b in six years and form a strategic defence partnership. The presence of members of the…

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The future of the V4 format, the EU agenda, but also bilateral relations between the Czech Republic and Hungary. These were the main topics of the meeting between the Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Petr Macinka and the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Péter Szijjártó. Macinka received the head of Hungarian diplomacy on January 19, 2026 at the Černín Palace. The head of Hungarian diplomacy is the first foreign visitor that Petr Macinka has received in his role as Minister of Foreign Affairs.…

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SEOUL: South Korea’s special prosecutor has requested the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of masterminding an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. South Korea last handed down a death sentence in 2016, but has not executed anyone since 1997. In closing arguments at the Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday, a prosecutor said investigators confirmed the existence of a scheme allegedly directed by Yoon and his former defence minister, Kim Yong-hyun, dating back to October 2023 designed to keep Yoon…

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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would react strongly if authorities in Iran started hanging people in their crackdown on a popular uprising against the government. “We will take very strong action if they do such a thing,” he told CBS News in an interview, when asked about hangings potentially beginning on Wednesday. “When they start killing thousands of people — and now you’re telling me about hanging. We’ll see how that’s going to work out for them,” Trump said in a video clip released online. The interview…

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India is likely to face a year in which the lines between foreign policy, domestic politics and the economy become increasingly blurred, making it harder for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to offset diplomatic setbacks with domestic successes, according to an analysis by Chatham House. The report said 2025 was anging foreign policy year, marked by a four-day conflict with Pakistan in May and a surguably India’s most challebsequent downturn in relations with the United States. The Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on India over its purchase of Russian crude and the…

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KARACHI: “I don’t need international law. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” US President Donald Trump declared in an interview with the New York Times on Friday. The remarks came in the aftermath of a daring US special forces operation that abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, raising alarm bells among international law experts, political commentators, and foreign policy analysts worldwide. Trump’s blunt assertion underscores a broader pattern of unilateralism in US foreign policy, one that challenges not only constitutional and legal norms…

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US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday to “make a deal” or face unspecified consequences, warning that the flow of Venezuelan oil and money to Havana would now stop. “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!” Trump said on his Truth Social channel. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” His remarks come a week after US forces seized Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in a nighttime operation in Caracas that killed dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban security…

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