President Trump’s plans to send representatives to Greenland this week have angered political leaders on the island territory, who see the group’s visit as an aggressive escalation of his threats to seize the area, by force if necessary. Mr. Trump has made no secret of his designs on Greenland, repeating his threats to acquire the … Read more
As the Israeli military has expanded its offensive in the Gaza Strip, taking control of more territory in parts of the south and north and issuing new evacuation orders, many people who had only recently returned to their homes have been forcibly displaced once again. Israel’s drive into the southern city of Rafah pushed thousands … Read more
Bird flu has infected a sheep in Britain in what the government on Monday described as the first case of its kind reported anywhere in the world. While avian influenza had already been detected in cattle and other mammals, including in the United States, the infection of a sheep will increase concern over the potential … Read more
Ahead of President Trump’s next big trade move, his administration invited companies to weigh in on the economic barriers they faced abroad. The list of complaints was both sprawling and specific. In hundreds of letters submitted to the administration in recent weeks, producers of uranium, shrimp, T-shirts and steel highlighted the unfair trade treatment they … Read more
Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the top rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on accusations of corruption and supporting terrorism. The biggest protests in more than a decade have erupted across the country, with Mr. Imamoglu ousted from his position and … Read more
For more than 150 years, U.S. officials have repeatedly wanted, as President Trump puts it, to “get” Greenland. The idea came up in the 1860s, then again before and after the world wars. In a way, the timing couldn’t be better than now, with Greenlanders re-examining their painful colonial history under Denmark and many people … Read more
The French actor Gérard Depardieu on Monday appeared before a Paris court where he faces two charges of sexually assaulting two women working on the set of a film in which he was starring. The trial will be the first time Mr. Depardieu has been forced to answer in court to accusations of groping, sexual … Read more
On his first day in office, Lebanon’s new finance minister, Yassine Jaber, sat at his desk reading a color-coded report on the dire state of the ministry’s operations. Nearly everything was marked in alarming red. The computers were decades old — some still ran on Windows 98. Like much of the government, the ministry relied … Read more
For eight decades, Henri Mignon has viewed Americans as heroes. They twice liberated his tiny Belgian hometown, Houffalize, from German occupation — the second time, he said, when he was 8 years old, mere hours after shrapnel from shelling had killed his father. The image of U.S. troops handing out gum to local children is … Read more
A ‘highly aggressive’ trip to Greenland Relations between Greenland and the U.S. deteriorated further yesterday as Mute Egede, the island’s prime minister, erupted over what he called a “highly aggressive” delegation of senior officials that the Trump administration plans to send there this week. Greenlanders’ effort to be diplomatic just “bounces off Donald Trump and … Read more