US President Donald Trump and his officials are “actively” discussing a potential offer to buy the Danish territory of Greenland, the White House has confirmed. It is “something that’s currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team”, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday. Both Greenland and Denmark have repeatedly stressed the island was...
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Republic Day 26: EU Leaders Likely to Be Chief Guests Ahead of India–EU Summit
India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2026 are expected to carry strong diplomatic significance, with European Union (EU) leaders likely to attend as chief guests. According to media reports, the EU has officially accepted India’s invitation, underlining the growing importance of the India–EU Strategic Partnership at a time of shifting global economic and geopolitical alignments. The expected chief guests include Ursula von der Leyen, President...
Venezuela swears in interim president after defiant Maduro pleads not guilty In US Court
Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president in a parliamentary session that began with demands for the release of ousted leader Nicolás Maduro from US custody. Rodríguez, 56, vice president since 2018, said she was pained by what she called the “kidnapping” of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were seized by US forces in an overnight...
Trump on Venezuela: ‘We are going to run the country’
President Donald Trump announced that the US will run Venezuela until a ‘proper transition can take place.’ The United States launched strikes against the country and captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on 3 January. Trump said Maduro and his wife were captured from a fortress-like house and will be taken to New York; the president said there...
Nazi Salute Or Something Else? Zohran Mamdani’s Inaugural Gesture Is Viral
Zohran Mamdani, the Indian-origin mayor of New York City, courted controversy on social media after clips from his inaugural event went viral, showing the 34-year-old briefly extending his right arm and waving to the crowd. Some MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters claimed Mamdani’s gesture appeared to resemble a Nazi salute. Some even compared it with the gesture made by...
Trump says US ‘has to have’ Greenland after naming special envoy
Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. In response to a question from the BBC about the new role of Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, Trump said the US needed Greenland for “national protection” and that “we...
Zelenskiy favours US proposal of three-way talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would back a U.S. proposal for three-sided talks with the United States and Russia if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners and paved the way for meetings of national leaders.Zelenskiy, speaking to local journalists in Kyiv, also said top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov had told him of the latest discussions that took...
Bill Gates and Sergey Brin among newly released Epstein photos
House Democrats have released several dozen more photos on Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, showing his associations with the rich and famous. The release of the 68 photos came a day before the deadline to release all unclassified Epstein case files. Under a law signed by US President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice has...
15 Victims and a Gunman Dead After Attack
Australian police said on Monday that they expected to bring criminal charges against the gunman hospitalized after a shooting spree in which 15 people were killed, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community in the nation’s history. The authorities said they found evidence that the attack on Sunday at the city’s famed Bondi Beach, which they said...
Pakistan PM Sharif ‘gatecrashes’ Putin–Erdogan meeting after ‘40-minute wait’
At an international forum in Turkmenistan marking 30 years of the country’s permanent neutrality, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. However, a video with the claim that Sharif had walked into a closed-door meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his own bilateral with Putin was delayed went...
Powerful 7.2 earthquake off northern Japan triggers tsunami alert
A major earthquake rocked Japan’s northern coast on Monday, with the country’s meteorological agency recording several tsunami waves and local media reporting injuries. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 quake struck at 1415 GMT off Misawa on Japan’s Pacific coast, at a depth of 53 kilometres (33 miles). The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning, with...
Thailand launches air raids along Cambodia border after deadly clashes
Thailand’s military has launched air attacks along its disputed border with Cambodia as the Southeast Asian neighbours traded blame for clashes that killed one Thai soldier and wounded three Cambodian civilians. In a statement on Monday, a spokesman for the Thai military, Major-General Winthai Suvari, said Thailand deployed the aircraft to “suppress” Cambodian attacks after the death of the Thai...