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Why buy Greenland? Because it’s valuable (or so Trump’s been told)

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President Donald Trump has floated the idea of buying Greenland multiple times in the last two weeks. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called...

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Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv

Six people are killed in Kyiv, and Ukraine targets one of Russia's biggest oil ports on the Black Sea coast. [...]

South Africa to investigate 'mystery' of planeload of Palestinians

It is not clear who chartered the plane carrying the Palestinians from Kenya to South Africa. [...]

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Lawyers for the US president have threatened to sue the corporation for $1bn (£759m). [...]

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