Articles in ‘World News’

Business as usual is ‘impossible’ while the US is attempting to seize Greenland, the European Parliament has said · RT: Ursula von der Leyen meets with Donald Trump at Trump Turnberry golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, July 27, 2025 © Getty Images / Andrew Harnik · The European Parliament has halted approval of the EU’s landmark trade and tariff deal with the US, citing US President Donald Trump’s “continued and…

Countries that long participated in the system knew it was “partially false,” Mark Carney told the Davos forum · RT: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. © Getty Images / Harun Ozalp;  Anadolu · Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has admitted that the “rules-based international order” was always a partially false narrative that countries knowingly upheld for…

Alex Krainer · I was hoping to round up President Trump’s speech in Davos, Switzerland in this report today, but as I write this, Trump is still speaking and it looks like he’s gone off script: he’s not looking at teleprompters but at the audience and he’s clearly ad-libbing which could go on a while. · The prepared remarks - the part Trump appears to have read off the teleprompters - was interesting but not surprising in substance.…

The US president has called Britain’s deal to lease back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius an act of “total weakness” · US President Donald Trump. ©  Alex Wong/Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has criticized the UK’s decision to hand over control of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it a “great stupidity” and a threat to US national security. · The Chagos Archipelago,…

Threats to seize the autonomous Danish territory have raised fears for the future of sovereignty and international law, Alain Berset has said · RT: Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse / Contributor · Any US move to annex Greenland would undermine the post-World War II international legal order and challenge the principle of state sovereignty,…

The US president has clashed with several NATO allies over his plan to annex the Danish overseas territory · RT: FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, US, January 16, 2026. © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker · Western European leaders should focus on the Ukraine conflict rather than US efforts to get Greenland, President Donald Trump told NBC News on Monday. · In a…

The body proposed by the US president is intended to manage Gaza following the Hamas-Israel war · RT: Russian President Vladimir Putin. ©  Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev · Russia has been invited to sit on a new ‘Peace Board’ proposed by US President Donald Trump and meant to steer post-war governance and reconstruction in Gaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. · Trump proposed the board late last…

by Tyler Durden · "These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable," warned President Trump as he escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is achieved. · A 10% tariff "on any and all goods sent to the United States of America" will impact Denmark,…

Keir Starmer has denounced the US president’s plan to impose tariffs on the bloc’s members · RT: FILE PHOTO ©  Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images · British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has publicly criticized US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on the United Kingdom and other European NATO members in his pursuit of a “complete and total purchase” of Greenland.  · The tariffs, announced by Trump on Saturday, target…

Mark Bullen’s British nationality has been revoked over security reasons, the Daily Mail has reported · RT: FILE PHOTO: A man holding his British passport. ©  Simone Rudolph · A former British police officer who has been living in Russia for more than a decade has been stripped of UK citizenship after being deemed a security threat, according to the Daily Mail. · Mark Bullen, who worked for…