France has said the European Union will not allow other nations to attack its “sovereign borders”, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to seize…
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USA:Trump ramps up threats to gain control of Greenland and Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump is showing no sign of letting up in his desire for the US to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, calling both critical to American national security.…
USA: Judge denies Trump bid to delay sentencing in hush money case
A New York judge will not delay this Friday’s sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in his felony hush money case. Justice Juan Merchan said the sentencing would proceed as Trump’s…
USA: Trump seeks to block release of special counsel report
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to not release a special counsel’s report setting out its investigations into the US president-elect. Jack Smith led two…
USA: Trump Jr to visit Greenland after dad says US should own the territory
Donald Trump Jr is planning to visit Greenland, two weeks after his father repeated his desire for the US to take control of the autonomous Danish territory. The US president-elect’s…
USA: Harris to certify Trump’s US election win, four years after Capitol riot
US Vice-President Kamala Harris will on Monday preside over the official certification in Congress of the result of November’s presidential election – a contest that she lost to Donald Trump.…
USA: Trump and Musk’s interventions prompt fresh diplomatic challenge
In Donald Trump’s first term, governments around the world braced for his morning social media posts. What policy would be reversed, what insult thrown? Four years on, diplomats are once…
USA: Trump’s power in Congress exposed
Shortly after Mike Johnson appeared to come up two votes shy of retaining the speakership of the House of Representatives on Friday, Marjorie Taylor Greene – the loyal Trump ally…
USA: Trump to be sentenced over hush money case but judge signals no jail time
A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to…
USA: Jimmy Carter’s challenges mirror those faced by Biden
Forty-four years elapsed between the time Jimmy Carter left the presidency and the day he died. Four decades seems like a long time – a record for a former US…