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Europe is preparing countermeasures against US President Donald Trump’s “blackmail” after he threatened tariffs against several countries over their oppositions to his designs on Greenland, Germany’s vice chancellor said...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Monday her plans to dissolve parliament this week for a snap election, hoping for a stronger mandate to push through her ambitious policy agenda. “Today, I, as the Prime Minister, have decided...
President Donald Trump told the Norwegian prime minister in a message published Monday that the world would not be secure unless the US controlled the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned on Sunday that any attack on the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would mean a declaration of war. “An attack on the great leader of our country is tantamount to a full-scale war...
US aviation authorities issued notices Friday warning airlines to “exercise caution” in the airspace over Mexico and Central America due to “military activities.” The Federal Aviation Administration posted a series of...
US President Donald Trump said Friday he may impose trade tariffs on countries that don’t support his plans to take over Greenland, part of the territory of NATO ally Denmark. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along...
From the Gulf states to Turkey and Pakistan, Iran’s neighbours know well the risks that US strikes targeting the Islamic republic would entail, from regional conflagration to waves of migration. AFP looks at the potential regional impacts of...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday for Moscow’s support at the United Nations in the wake of recent protests, his office said. In a phone call with the Russian leader on the day after...
A US bipartisan congressional delegation kicked off a visit to Copenhagen on Friday to express support for Denmark and Greenland after President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic island. The 11 congressmen and women were to hold...
The first US deportation flight to Venezuela since the ouster of Nicolas Maduro landed Friday in Caracas, AFP reporters said. The flight from Arizona, which was carrying 231 Venezuelans, landed at Maiquetia international airport, two weeks after...
There will be “no impunity for the perpetrators” of the crackdown in Iran, France’s foreign minister vowed on Friday, as the European Union readies new sanctions against Tehran. “The President of the European Commission has...
The Kremlin said Friday it considered calls by some European states to resume dialogue with Russia as “positive”, after French and Italian leaders called for re-engagement with Moscow on Ukraine. Dialogue between the EU and Russia has...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday held phone calls with the leaders of Israel and Iran, the Kremlin said, offering mediation amid large-scale protests in Iran that have raised fears of a military confrontation in the region. Independent...
The US Defense Department said Thursday it would overhaul the editorially independent, Pentagon-funded Stars and Stripes military newspaper to refocus the publication away from “woke distractions.” Stars and Stripes was first published...
New Zealand said Friday it has temporarily closed its embassy in Tehran and flown out its diplomats because of worsening security in Iran. Diplomatic staff left Iran safely on commercial flights overnight, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry...
