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Published on 06/01/2026 – 14:44 GMT+1 •Updated 14:44 One of US President Donald Trump’s senior aides has ramped up Washington’s threat to take over Greenland, stating on Monday that no one would militarily challenge the United States over the future of the autonomous Danish territory. In an interview with CNN, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said it was Washington’s “formal position … that Greenland should be part of the US”. His comments followed the US president’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under Washington’s control in the aftermath of the weekend military…
The statement was signed by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof tweeted afterward that the Netherlands “fully supports” the statement. The show of support for Denmark comes after Trump doubled down on his claims to the Danish-held territory following a U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. On Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller questioned Copenhagen’s claim over the territory, but declined to…
By Euronews Published on 06/01/2026 – 13:07 GMT+1 Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today’s consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims flock to Rome and a historic transition from one American pontiff to another. With cardinals and diplomats looking on, Pope Leo XIV kneeled down in prayer on the stone floor at the threshold of the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica. He then stood up and pulled the two doors shut, symbolically concluding the rarest of Jubilees: one that late Pope Francis opened in December…
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The swearing in of Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s interim president following Washington’s ouster of Nicolás Maduro marks the latest twist in the country’s socialist “Chavismo” movement. But who exactly is Rodríguez, and what can be gleaned from her family background and political ties? The 56-year-old lawyer has risen rapidly through the ranks of power in Miraflores Palace over the past decade. Yet her political ascent is inseparable from her family history —above all from the legacy of her father, José Antonio Rodríguez. José Antonio Rodríguez, the patriarch of a family that would later come to shape the trajectory of Venezuela’s…
By Patrick Whittle with AP Published on 06/01/2026 – 11:04 GMT+1 One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction. The North Atlantic right whale’s population numbers an estimated 384 animals and is slowly rising after several years of decline. The whales have gained more than 7 per cent of their 2020 population, according to scientists who study them. The whales give birth off the southeastern United States every winter before migrating north to feed. Researchers have identified…
“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do,” she said. Badenoch was born in the U.K. in 1980, but grew up in Nigeria. She returned to the U.K. aged 16 in 1996. “I am different from other party leaders and other people in the House of Commons,” she said. “I grew up under a military dictatorship, so I know what it’s like to have someone like Maduro in charge.” Badenoch, whose Conservative party has been closely aligned with the Republicans for decades, did say Maduro’s capture raises “serious questions…
Published on 06/01/2026 – 11:04 GMT+1 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Monday she wants to share her Nobel Peace Prize with US President Donald Trump and personally thank him following his administration’s military intervention in Venezuela. In an interview with Fox News, Machado praised Trump for the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, describing Washington’s actions as “a huge step for humanity, for freedom and human dignity”. Machado said she had not spoken to the US president since 10 October, the day when she was announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 58-year-old…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán predicted the European Union would “fall apart on its own” due to “leadership chaos” and said Brussels aimed to cut Hungary off from Russian energy supplies during a press conference on Monday. Orbán rejected the possibility of Hungary leaving the EU, saying the country lacked the size to make such a decision sensible. However, he stressed Hungary’s future lay within the bloc and NATO but with “a sovereign foreign policy and economic policy”. He said: “EU membership is an important opportunity, but if we were to get stuck in this single bloc, we would drink…
Published on 06/01/2026 – 10:05 GMT+1 Inflation in France cooled in December — a reading that comes after the European Central Bank’s decision to hold interest rates at the end of last year. Consumer prices (CPI) rose by 0.8% year-on-year in December, following a reading of 0.9% in November, according to statistics body INSEE. The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices or HICP, which allows for comparison between EU countries, came to 0.7%. That followed a reading of 0.8% in November. “The fall in inflation should be attributed to a more pronounced decrease in energy prices, mainly those of petroleum products,”…