Copenhagen, March 24 (IANS) People in Denmark are voting on Tuesday for a snap parliamentary election called by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who is seeking a third term. The latest polls give the left-wing coalition behind Frederiksen a nine-seat lead over the right bloc. However, none of the two sides are projected to win a majority of the 179 seats in Denmark’s parliament, the Folketing, Euro News reported.Frederiksen, who has been in office since 2019, has been praised for her leadership…
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Munich, Feb 15 (IANS) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that US President Donald Trump’s desire to obtain Greenland has not changed.”I think the desire from the US president is exactly the same. He is very serious about this theme,” Frederiksen said at a panel of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday (local time).”We have to protect sovereign states. We have to protect people’s right to self-determination. And the Greenlandic people have been very clear: they don’t want to be…
Paris, Feb 6 (IANS) France has opened a Consulate in Greenland, becoming the first European Union country to establish a diplomatic mission in the autonomous Danish territory, the French Foreign Ministry said Friday.Jean-Noel Poirier has taken up his post as Consul General in Greenland’s capital of Nuuk, a move to strengthen France’s consular network, the ministry said in a post on social media X.President Emmanuel Macron first announced his plan for the consulate during a visit to Greenland in …
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) The Trump Administration’s new US National Defense Strategy marks “one of the most significant departures” in US defence priorities since World War II, experts said, describing a turn toward homeland and Western Hemisphere missions and tougher expectations for allies.“As written, the National Defense Strategy represents one of the most significant departures in the transatlantic defense relationship and really, in US defence priorities and postures that we’ve se…
Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced sharp questioning from senators over presidential war powers, NATO unity, and America’s global role, as lawmakers debated the legality and long-term consequences of US actions in Venezuela.Rubio defended the operation that led to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, arguing it did not amount to war. “We just don’t believe that this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition of war,” he said on Wednesday (loca…
Paris, Jan 28 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that the escalating tensions with the United States over Greenland constitute a strategic wake-up call for Europe as a whole, while reiterating France’s solidarity with Denmark and Greenland. “Recent events confirm that the situation in Greenland is a strategic wake-up call for all of Europe: on asserting our European sovereignty, on our contribution to Arctic security, on combating foreign interference and disinformation, o…
Seoul, Jan 26 (IANS) South Korean stocks closed lower on Monday to snap three consecutive days of rise ahead of a U.S. rate-setting meeting, with investors sitting on the sidelines amid geopolitical uncertainties in Iran.The Korean won sharply gained against the U.S. dollar, and the tech-laden KOSDAQ surged by more than 7 percent to land above 1,000 for the first time in more than four years, reports Yonhap news agency.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 40.48 points, or…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Investors are likely to remain on edge over the proposed US framework on Greenland, and near-term volatility related to this issue can continue, a report has said.The report from Bank of Baroda said that market participants are awaiting more details that could determine whether negotiations succeed or unravel.”Going ahead, investors are likely to await more details of the deal, as there are a few sticking points which can derail the negotiations. Hence, some volatility c…
Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) Indian equity benchmarks closed this week down over 2.5 per cent due to profit-booking, sustained foreign institutional investor (FII) outflows and renewed concerns over global trade disruptions stemming from the US tariff rhetoric.All sectoral indices ended in the red this week, with Realty logging the worst-performance, dipping 11.33 per cent. Consumer durables, telecom, and consumer discretionary sectors went down over 5 per cent.Nifty dipped 2.51 per cent during the wee…
Washington, Jan 23 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said the main obstacle to a Ukraine-Russia agreement remains the same factors that have stalled talks for months, describing the conflict as complex and insisting it was not his war.“Look, this is a war. This Biden’s war. This isn’t my war,” Trump said when asked about the hold-up in reaching a deal. “This is a war that should have never happened, but it’s complex, because you have beats and bounds, you have streets, you have rivers, you …