European leaders are seeking to clarify a little-used mutual defence clause in the European Union treaty as questions grow over Washington’s long-term commitment to NATO during a deepening rift with the United States. NATO, founded in 1949, is a military alliance of North American and European countries built on the principle that an attack on…
A heat wave near the Arctic, a warmer Mediterranean and wildfires and floods across Europe were part of a year of extremes in 2025, further evidence of how human activity is changing the continent’s climate, European scientists said in a report on Wednesday. At least 95 percent of Europe had above-average annual temperatures in 2025,…
Shorouk Express After Venezuela and its oil, which country and resources will the United States set its sights on next? In the aftermath of the controversial US military intervention on 2 and 3 January, which led to the arrest and extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores to the United States…
Shorouk Express “This could be ports, and it could be another type of critical infrastructure that both has a defense and military perspective, but which can also be used, for example, in relation to tourism or raw materials extraction,” she added. Greenland has a strong independence movement and has been gradually gaining autonomy for decades….
Shorouk Express Macron’s visit comes amid Trump’s continued threats to annex Greenland. Since his first term, Trump has repeatedly mused about acquiring the island, home to 56,000 residents but eyed by the U.S. president for its mineral reserves and strategic position in the Arctic. Since his reelection in November, Trump has become increasingly aggressive in his desire…
Shorouk Express “I don’t rule it out. I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security,”…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email President Donald Trump will not rule out using military force to seize Greenland. Trump said during an interview with NBC News on Saturday,…
Shorouk Express On Friday, Greenland’s government announced a deal for a coalition between Greenland’s Democrats and other parties. Trump’s obsession with the strategic, mineral-rich island has grown stronger in the past weeks. He made the issue a top national security priority, and told journalists on Friday that “we have to have” the territory to secure the…
Shorouk Express Greenland will form a new coalition government that comprises all but one party elected to its legislature, a show of political unity in the face of ongoing takeover threats from United States President Donald Trump. Four of the five parties with seats in Greenland’s parliament have agreed to band together in a broad…
Shorouk Express Frederiksen’s condemnation marks her most trenchant criticism of the White House since Trump turned his attention to seizing the self-ruling Danish territory, with its vast reserves of critical minerals and vital geostrategic location in the Arctic. Frederiksen also noted that Greenlandic representatives were “clear” that “they do not want a visit right now,…
