Meet Jens Kjeldsen: 70-year-old man who protests outside the US Consulate in Greenland every morning in freezing cold | World News

Meet Jens Kjeldsen: 70-year-old man who protests outside the US Consulate in Greenland every morning in freezing cold | World News

Every morning before sunrise in Nuuk, when the streets are still quiet and the sky is only beginning to lighten, Jens Kjeldsen turns up outside the small wooden US Consulate building with a simple but striking message. In the biting mid-winter cold, he stands with three flags, Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, protesting against…

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Trump’s 10% tariffs: Macron hits back at ‘unacceptable’ threats; Swedish PM warns, EU ‘will not be blackmailed’

Trump’s 10% tariffs: Macron hits back at ‘unacceptable’ threats; Swedish PM warns, EU ‘will not be blackmailed’

European leaders have pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat, warning that using trade penalties in connection with Greenland is “wrong” and could damage transatlantic ties.Trump, on Saturday, announced a 10% tariff on all goods entering the United States from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland,…

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Trump's Greenland push: Atlantic alliance cracks over Arctic

Trump’s Greenland push: Atlantic alliance cracks over Arctic

Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt (AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: They came, they cried, and they left without any conciliation. A pleading, deferential presentation on Wednesday by foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland to the Trump administration that the United States could have whatever it wants in Greenland…

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Who is Jeff Landry, Trump's 'special envoy'? Denmark-Greenlandic leaders rebuke appointment'; demand respect for sovereignty

Who is Jeff Landry, Trump’s ‘special envoy’? Denmark-Greenlandic leaders rebuke appointment’; demand respect for sovereignty

Denmark and Greenlandic Prime Ministers rebukes Trump’s appointment of special envoy (Photo: AP) The Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland, in a stance against US President Donald Trump‘s appointment of a special envoy, demanded respect for their territorial integrity. They insisted that the US won’t take over Greenland and that the sovereignty of the nation…

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