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The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 ‌active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government’s deportation drive, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday. The ‍US Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not cl...


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Kyiv held “substantive” talks on security and economic issues with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff, with more discussions expected in Davos, Switzerland this week, Ukraine’s security chief said on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has said he hopes to sign documents with the US on security guarantees at the World Economic Forum i...


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European capitals may hit ‌the US with €93 ‍billion ($108 billion) worth of tariffs or restrict American companies ⁠from the bloc’s market in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats to ‍Nato allies opposed to his ‍campaign to take over Greenland, the Financial ‌Times reported on Sunday. The retaliation measures ‍are being drawn up to give European leaders leverage in ‌pi...


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Governments reacted cautiously on Sunday to US President Donald Trump’s invitation to join his “Board of Peace” initiative aimed at resolving conflicts globally, a plan that diplomats said could harm the work of the United Nations. Only ‍Hungary, whose leader Viktor Orban is a close Trump ally, gave an unequivocal acceptance in response to the invitations, which have been addres...


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Talk of the United States acquiring Greenland has often been dismissed as rhetorical provocation. But the latest escalation is harder to wave away. President Donald Trump said it would be “unacceptable” if the US did not control Greenland only hours before Vice-President J.D. Vance hosted the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers. When territorial language is paired with seni...


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