Nato on Monday sought to project unity on Arctic security even as the alliance grapples with a fresh shock from Washington, as the US President Donald Trump has openly floated taking control of Greenland. Nato chief Mark Rutte said the bloc was working on concrete steps to strengthen Arctic defences amid rising Russian and Chinese…
Rescue workers put out a fire at a residential building damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine (AP photo) Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that its forces struck “strategic targets” in Ukraine overnight using Oreshnik hypersonic missiles. The ministry did not provide further details on the locations or extent of the strikes, but…
US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced that he will be meeting officials in Denmark next week.“I’ll be meeting with them next week,” Rubio told news agency AP.The demand for Greenland is not a hidden fact. Earlier, the Danish PM said that if the United States decided to attack another Nato country, which…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that Nato allies sharply increased their defence spending only after his intervention, while also asserting that Russia and China do not fear the military alliance without the United States.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Nato countries were…
Trump (left) & Representative AI image (right) Several European leaders on Tuesday pushed back US President Donald Trump‘s threat of seeking an American takeover of Greenland, issuing a joint statement saying that the mineral-rich Arctic island “belongs to its people.” Leaders from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Danish prime minister…
US President Donald Trump and Denmark PM Frederiksen (File photo) Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday strongly rejected US President Donald Trump’s renewed claims about Greenland, the autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.Frederiksen dismissed Trump’s repetitive assertions that the US “needs” Greenland for “security reasons”, calling it an “unacceptable pleasure.” Speaking to a…
Russia is suspected of developing a new kind of anti-satellite weapon aimed at Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation, according to intelligence findings from Nato nations seen by news agency Associated Press.The weapon would be different from traditional anti-satellite systems. Instead of hitting a single target, it would release hundreds of thousands of tiny metal pellets into…
Russian President Vladimir Putin fired back on Thursday at US President Donald Trump for calling Russia a “paper tiger,” suggesting that Nato itself might fit that description. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Group in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin stated that Russian forces were advancing along the entire front in Ukraine and that…
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday dismissed as incorrect, baseless and unacceptable Nato chief Mark Rutte’s claims that PM Modi, under pressure from the US tariffs on India, had sought an explanation from Russian President Vladimir Putin over his Ukraine strategy. The MEA said that at no point did Modi have any such conversation with…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Friday hit out at Nato chief Mark Rutte over his recent remark claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Russian president Vladimir Putin after the US tariff move. In a strongly-worded reply, the MEA termed the remark “factually incorrect” and “entirely baseless”.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal clearly…