The US plans to re-establish a Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland ‌and set up another on the east coast, now used by the Danish dog sled patrol, under a deal to be signed with Denmark and Greenland, according to ‌three people familiar with the matter. The sites are Narsarsuaq, whose population has dwindled to a few dozen people since the US closed its Bluie West One military base in the 1950s, and Mestersvig, a military ⁠outpost used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, a Danish special

NEW YORK (AP) — US President Donald Trump's trip to New York for a speech at the United Nations started Monday with a detour to Gracie Mansion for an hourlong chat — and a trip down memory lane — with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The president, appearing with Mamdani after their meeting, reminisced about his previous visits to the official residence of the city's mayors and recalled “great ones and some not so great ones” who have led the city in the past. "Hopefully you're going to be a great one," he

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he had positive talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump on the conflicts in Ukraine and in the Red Sea. "The other issue we talked about was the situation in the Red Sea. ... It's important for global prices. Then we had a long discussion about Ukraine and Russia," said Macron after their New York meeting. "We had a very good discussion. It was very constructive." Going into the high-stakes meeting ahead of the UN's high-level week, a French offici

EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas urged the bloc's member states Monday to maintain sanctions targeting Russia over the war on Ukraine, as countries work to push through an extension. "Sanctions are a core pillar of our response to Russia's war" to deprive Moscow of funding, she told reporters in New York after a meeting of European Union foreign affairs ministers. She added that officials aim to close talks on the rollover of Russia sanctions soon, and have the extension take place swiftly. "We need

Houthi fighters pushed to seize strategic heights in Yemen ‌Monday to cut off the Red Sea coast from remaining areas held by Saudi-backed forces, after a report that US President Donald Trump had called off American strikes on the group at the last minute. A lightning advance by the Iran-backed group this month has extended the wider Middle East conflict to a new theatre and further threatened global energy supplies. The US has so far rebuffed repeated pleas from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Moha

Pakistan's government said Monday that it launched airstrikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, killing at least 28 militants, with one security official saying two Afghan provinces were targeted. Hours earlier, Afghan Taliban officials accused Islamabad of killing at least three civilians in overnight airstrikes on Afghan territory. The UN ‌Assistance Mission in Afghanistan confirmed the deaths of three civilians: a man, a woman and a girl. The attacks broke nearly three months of rela

BERLIN (AFP) -- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz starts the week more damaged than ever after his center-right CDU party suffered two bruising regional election defeats at the hands of far-right and far-left parties. Just 16 months in office, Merz has seen his approval ratings plummet while his party has suffered a string of regional election losses against the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which also leads nationwide polls. Fighting speculation that his CDU/CSU bloc may

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday, as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to the Moscow Oil Refinery, which is among several sites that supply the Russian capital, and a residential building. Across the wider Mos

The United States warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed. US President Donald Trump cut short a weekend at Camp David, a secluded presidential complex in rural Maryland, to return unexpectedly to the White House. The White House gave no explanation for the early return, which comes as a new threshold was crossed in the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's ruling United Russia party was on track to easily win a ‌parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for the war in Ukraine, partial official results showed Sunday, after Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on the Russian capital. In a tightly controlled political system which critics say does not tolerate genuine dissent, initial results showed United Russia comfortably ahead with 57.5 percent of the vote. Other parties lik

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were being extradited to the US Sunday, marking the end of a drawn-out judicial process in Haiti for a killing that shocked the troubled Caribbean country. The suspects will face justice in Florida, according to Jason Reding Quinones, US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. “Today marks the next major phase in our pursuit of accountability for the assassination o

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- US President Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans ‌to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that would step up its attack on the global tribunal that prosecutes war crimes and genocide worldwide. The Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for the court and ⁠has worked to undermine it. US officials want the court to drop its arrest warrants against Isra

US ‌defense tech firm Anduril's founder Palmer Luckey said Saturday that US President Donald Trump's delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he has discussed this with Trump. The $14 billion package for Taiwan has been awaiting Trump's approval ‌for months. After a May summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he was holding it in abeyance and described it as a "very good negotiating chip." China claims democratically governed Taiwan as it

Russia’s parliamentary election for the first time includes residents of regions that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago, part of Kremlin efforts to cement its gains. Officials in Kyiv vigorously denounced the action as illegal, and a human rights activist described residents there as being coerced to participate in the election. While the vote across Russia started Friday to help boost turnout, balloting actually has been u

Some Western politicians are seeking conflict between ​NATO and Russia after a "failed" strategy to defeat Moscow in its war with Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico ‌said Saturday. Longtime Slovak leader Fico, who has kept up warm relations with Russia and refuses military aid for Ukraine, said last week that Europe was ‌closer than ever to a large-scale war erupting from the Ukraine war. At the same time, some European leaders, such as those in France and Poland, have warned of Russian