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What Imperialist Game Is Donald Trump Playing with Greenland?

The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.

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Finnish foreign minister: Greenland covered by NATO security rules

Finland's foreign minister Elina Valtonen says Greenland is protected by Article 5 of NATO.

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WWF warns of biggest mass extinction event since dinosaurs

The world is heading for the biggest mass extinction event since the dinosaurs within the next decade, pushing millions of plants and animals to the...

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One year since Navalny's death, investigation stalls

Sunday marks one year since the sudden death of top Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in his arctic prison. VOA Russian looks back at how the...

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Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism

Trump’s obsession with claiming Greenland and its people for the US is just a new version of the same old imperialist story.

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A Trump L’Oeil and More Signs of What’s to Come

Taking the president-elect at his word, it will only get worse from here.

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US and Canada conduct air defense drills in Greenland as Trump pushes for control

U.S. and Canadian air force members conducted joint military drills in Greenland in practice for action under bitterly cold conditions. Operation...

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The indigenous Arctic community 'breathing its last' in Putin's war 4,000 miles from home

One of the world’s oldest continuous communities is ‘breathing its last breath’ as some of its few remaining men die fighting for Russia more...

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'Life-threatening cold' hits parts of US following deadly weekend flooding

Harsh cold descended on the nation's midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that...

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How polar vortex collapse will affect the US

A polar vortex collapse has been forecast to hit within weeks. The weather phenomenon will hit in mid-March and will affect the United States and...

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