In 1917, the United States bought Caribbean islands from Denmark and agreed to respect Denmark’s hold over Greenland. The deal resurfaced with President Trump’s recent threats to seize Greenland.

President Trump’s efforts to pry Greenland from Denmark show that “the old world order is now gone,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned in Berlin. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Prime ...

This past week Greenland was big in the news. Of course, Greenland has always been big. Three times the size of Texas, the world's largest island dominates the arctic space between North America and ...

On Dec. 30, 2025, the Danish postal service delivered its final letter, bringing an end to a tradition that had lasted for more than four centuries. The decision, announced earlier in the year by ...

Denmark dispatched more than 100 combat soldiers to Greenland on Monday as President Trump intensified efforts to acquire the autonomous Danish territory. The Danish Armed Forces described the troop ...

Denmark on Monday ramped up its military presence in Greenland, deploying extra troops to the strategic Arctic territory amid escalating tensions with President Donald Trump. Local Danish broadcaster ...

Denmark has sent additional troops to Greenland amid United States President Donald Trump’s threats to take control of the self-governing Danish territory. The chief of the Royal Danish Army, Peter ...

Denmark's defense minister said he and Greenland's defense minister raised the possibility of a NATO surveillance mission in Greenland in a meeting with the NATO chief Mark Rutte. Despite Trump's ...

The protest followed Trump’s warning on Friday that he “may put a tariff” on countries that oppose his plans to take over mineral-rich Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. They also ...

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President Donald Trump and Denmark have a "fundamental disagreement" over the kingdom's ownership of Greenland, a Danish official said. "Ideas that would not respect territorial integrity of the ...

Greenland and Denmark will hold high-stakes talks on Wednesday in Washington over US ambitions to annex the Arctic island, vowing to “go in together and leave together”. Amid sustained pressure from ...