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Can the US put a price tag on Greenland?
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2026
» LONDON — Despite Denmark's repeated insistence that Greenland is not for sale, US President Donald Trump and his team are "talking about what a potential purchase would look like", according to a White House spokeswoman this week.
Russia and China eye NATO's 'Arctic Achilles heel'
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» BARENTSBURG (SVALBARD): Russian flags flap in the stiff polar breeze, a bust of Lenin looms out of the snow and a vast slogan declares, "Communism is our goal!"
Greece warms to EU asylum pact but refugee groups rage
AFP, Published on 27/09/2020
» ATHENS: Greece's government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU's shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued "outrageous containment policy".
Swiss exhibit catalogues draw of war, desire for peace
AFP, Published on 17/10/2019
» COLOGNY (SWITZERLAND) - Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and a 4,500-year-old peace treaty -- the world's oldest -- represent opposite poles in the eternal human struggle between the propulsion to war and the desire for peace.
S. Sudan doctor wins UN refugee prize
AFP, Published on 25/09/2018
» GENEVA - A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre and no regular supply of general anaesthesia on Tuesday won the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen award.