Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte B. Egede said that his government is working to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump in light of the United States president’s threats to take over the Arctic island.

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US President Donald Trump’s unpredictability and penchant for forceful rhetoric could give Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy the off-ramp he needs to get exhausted Ukrainians on board with a peace deal.

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On the three big issues facing Europe — ongoing support for Ukraine, sweeping new tariffs, and the future of NATO — US President Donald Trump has so far been mostly silent.

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The British government has warned the country’s burgeoning private intelligence and security industry to stop doing work for hostile states like Russia, China and Iran.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez fired back at Donald Trump today after the US president criticized Madrid for falling well short on its defense spending.

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🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has threatened Vladimir Putin on Ukraine: We can do this the easy way … or the hard way.

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With US President Donald Trump promising to end the war in Ukraine fast, Europe is scrambling to figure out what postwar role it will play.

One of the models being discussed is deploying a Europe-led peacekeeping outfit to enforce any potential cease-fire. But no one has figured out how to move the conversation forward.

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The Russian air assault in Ukraine is getting fiercer. In 2024, Moscow forces launched more than 7,000 drones, at least twice as many as in 2023.

We spoke to a Kyiv mobile air defense squad tasked with knocking those drones down.

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COMMENTARY: We can’t count on the stars aligning every time a cable or pipeline suffers mysterious damage, and must find ways of incentivizing ship crews to obey maritime rules.

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🚨 BREAKING: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte admitted that US President Donald Trump is being absolutely fair to demand that European allies spend more on defense.

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Europe's security challenges are best met by building up the militaries of the 27 member countries and not by creating an EU army, Kaja Kallas, the bloc's foreign affairs chief, said today.

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Chinese state-sponsored groups have been targeting Russian aerospace and defense firms looking for intelligence on Moscow's military capabilities, researchers told us.

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Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against Russia for war crimes after a video emerged showing Russian soldiers executing six unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said today he is open to meet with US President Donald Trump to “talk calmly” about issues such as energy prices and the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is set to visit key leaders around Europe today in a bid to keep Greenland out of the clutches of Donald Trump.

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COMMENTARY: Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war in Ukraine.

But both could be wrong.

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Europe's rush to rearm to face off the threat from Russia means countries will have to buy weapons from the US as well as boosting their own arms industries, Lithuania's defense minister told us.

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The EU will not attempt to fully ban Russian liquefied natural gas purchases in its latest sanctions package, two EU diplomats told us, defying pressure to outlaw imports of the supercooled fuel.

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Hamas has handed over the first of eight hostages expected to be released from Gaza today to Israel.

In exchange, Israel is set to release 110 Palestinian prisoners.

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