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The Danish defense ministry said Saturday that “drones have been observed at several of Danish defense facilities” overnight Friday into Saturday. The renewed drone sightings come after there were several drone sightings in the Nordic country earlier this week, with some of them temporarily shutting down Danish airports.

Unidentified drones shut down airspace over Copenhagen Airport on Monday night, prompting concerns that Russia could be behind the flyover.

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent report released Tuesday.

Russia fired more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, authorities said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s president and European leaders persevered with talks aimed at strengthening Ukrainian defenses and adding momentum to so far unsuccessful U.S.-led peace efforts.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot insisted that Greenland “is not for sale,” and criticized the U.S. for its intentions to take control of the strategic Arctic territory during a visit Sunday to its capital, Nuuk.

Alleged goal of ‘Covert Influence Operations’ is to weaken relations with Denmark from within Greenlandic society.

Brussels is using the supposed threat of climate change to fund mass migration into the European Union, Danish MEP Anders Vistisen said.

A team of researchers has found that people can die of a broken heart after a loved one passes away.

Addressing EU parliamentarians on Tuesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed that the European project can only work if national distinctions and borders are respected, arguing that the mass migration agenda over the past decade has hurt the most disadvantaged people in European societies.

Police were examining a suspicious package sent to the Israeli Embassy in Denmark’s capital, authorities said Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Denmark on Thursday as the Nordic country launched its European Union presidency.

Women now conscripted into Danish armed forces on an equal business, all having to enrol in the national service lottery after they turn 18.

A man suspected of gathering information for Iran on Jewish locations and individuals possibly with a view to attacks has been arrested.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland, the strategic Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.

The government of Kosovo reportedly agreed this week to “temporarily” accept a small number of migrants deported from the United States until they can be returned to their home countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Greenland next weekend, the Danish prime minister’s office said Saturday – a visit by a high-profile European Union leader in the wake of U.S. expressions of interest in taking over the mineral-rich Arctic island.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen have launched a campaign calling for reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights and its associated court to return the ability of national governments to remove foreign criminals from their midst. 

A plan from President Donald Trump to pay illegal aliens to self-deport is a policy that has proven successful in cutting illegal immigration in Europe.

Mette Frederiksen is traveling to Greenlandfor a three-day trip aimed at building trust and cooperation with Greenlandic officials.

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance are set to visit Greenland on Friday, despite criticism from left-wing politicians and liberal media outlets, where they will stop by the U.S.’s only military base in the Danish territory.

Greenland politicians have condemned plans for high-profile U.S. visits as “foreign interference” following President Donald Trump’s threats to purchase the island.

Second lady Usha Vance is set to visit Greenland this week as President Donald Trump has continued to offer to make the Arctic island a part of the United States.

Danish leader concedes U.VP ‘had a point on migration’, but sticks to Euro-orthodoxy that Russia is greatest threat to the continent of all. 

Unexpected election result sees legacy parties out of power and more right-wing, pro-American politicians dominate Greenland for first time.

Greenland national elections come amid growing national demands for independence President Trump’s offer to make it part of the U.S.

President Donald Trump vowed to invest billions into Greenland and to “create new jobs” if Greenlanders decide to join the United States, adding that they would be welcomed.

European leaders flocked to Ukraine on Monday to pledge their support on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, badly rattled by President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia and public feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Tuesday that the Kingdom of Denmark will “massively” increase its military spending as European nations grapple with the reality that they can no longer merely rely on the American taxpayer to subsidise their defence.

Greenland´s parliament bans political parties from receiving contributions “from foreign or anonymous contributors”.

Vice President JD Vance said on this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that President Donald Trump will continue to try to acquire Greenland no matter “what the Europeans scream at us.”

There are reportedly concerns that putting too many troops in Ukraine would leave Europe’s northeast border with Russia perilously unguarded.

Germany’s Chancellor tacitly compares Trump Greenland plan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while France says it offered to deploy the army.

Denmark on Monday announced a $2 billion investment in Arctic security, implicitly acknowledging President Donald Trump’s criticism of the region’s vulnerability to Russian aggression — a vulnerability Trump wanted to address by taking control of Greenland.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) apparently wants America to mimic Denmark’s financial system in a pivot that would further burden taxpayers.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has released a joint statement with Danish Member of Parliament Aaja Chemnitz announcing that Greenland may be “open for business, but not for sale.”