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The United States will not get Greenland, newly elected Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday in a post on Facebook in response to Donald Trump’s statements he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country. Trump said he had “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish…

Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Reuters Marine Le Pen is awaiting a high-stakes verdict in a party funding trial France’s Marine Le Pen faces a make-or-break moment on Monday, as a judge rules on whether she should be banned from the next presidential election. The hard-right leader, who is ahead…

French minister Aurore Bergé on Sunday accused the US embassy in Paris of trying to “impose a diktat” on French businesses after local media reported that companies had received a letter from embassy staff calling on them to comply with US President Donald Trump’s executive order terminating diversity, equity and…

Reuters Rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed in Mandalay, Myanmar Four more people have been pulled from rubble nearly 60 hours after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 1,700 people in the south-east Asian country. The survivors were rescued from…

Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to…

FRANCE 24 Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson reports on US President Donald Trump’s apparent anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calls for his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to be replaced by a UN-run transitional government. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source

Sebastian Usher BBC Middle East analyst Dr Mark Perlmutter An image supplied by Dr Perlmutter shows medics operating on a wounded Palestinian in Gaza Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing An American surgeon who’s been working in two Gaza hospitals for the past three weeks…

A test rocket aimed at kickstarting European satellite launches has crashed back to Earth moments after taking flight. The unmanned Spectrum rocket, which took off from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday, was billed as the first attempt at an orbital flight to come from Europe. German start-up Isar Aerospace developed…

Getty Images Richard Chamberlain was the star of TV series like Dr Kildare, Shogun and The Thorn Birds Richard Chamberlain, who has died today at the age of 90, shot to fame as TV heartthrob Dr Kildare in the 1960s. His dashing good looks won him legions of female fans,…

Richard Chamberlain, the actor best known for his role in the 1960s medical drama Dr Kildare and leading role in Shogun, has died aged 90, his publicist has confirmed to the BBC. Chamberlain earned the title “king of the mini-series” for his leading roles in Shogun and The Thorn Birds….