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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to buy Greenland from Denmark has met with surprise and a sharp rebuff from Copenhagen, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen calling the idea “absurd”. Stung by the rejection, T…

WASHINGTON President Trump on Tuesday night abruptly canceled an coming trip to Denmark, writing on Twitter that because the countrys prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, they would meet another ti…

Finally, we have a solution to a problem that, while it admittedly only exists amongst a very small subset of clinically insane people, is a problem nonetheless: watch collectors have too many NATO straps and nowhere to store them. Haveston has thankfully e…

Danish officials have scoffed at a report suggesting United States President Donald Trump asked advisers if it is possible for the US to buy Greenland. Trump has expressed interest in the self-governing Danish territory - which is mostly covered in ice - ask…

Afghan forces, which depend on the United States and its allies for their salaries and for crucial air support during operations, worry about what an American deal with the Taliban could mean for their position. Except for the countrys special forces, who ca…

Washington (CNN)A Russian fighter jet acted in an "unsafe manner" during a Tuesday encounter with NATO aircraft, with the Russian jet almost cutting into the flight path of a NATO plane, forcing the alliance jet to maneuver to avoid a dangerous situation, a N…

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to hold a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. When it comes to foreign policy, some presidents made very big mistakes for which they will forever be pilloried. In the…

STRALSUND, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she was taking Berlin’s commitment toward its NATO allies seriously to further increase defense spending toward the agreed target. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly crit…

Russia’s top nuclear official promised on Monday to succeed in developing new weapons as he paid tribute to five scientists killed in what U.S. experts suspect was the botched test of a new missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin. The five scientists kil…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian fighter jets pushed away a NATO war plane after it tried to approach Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu’s plane over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, TASS news agency reported. The plane was flying from Kaliningrad to Moscow …