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The forgotten Danish colony in India: How Tranquebar became Denmark’s foothold in Tamil Nadu

February 17, 2026 6:04 pm

An expedition meant to challenge the Portuguese in Sri Lanka instead left behind a Protestant church, a Tamil printing press, and a marginal empire in Tranquebar.

After Trump's Greenland takeover threats, Marco Rubio delivers a surprising message to NATO allies in Munich

February 14, 2026 8:12 pm

Rubio's message comes barely a month after Washington's European allies were at their wits’ end over US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to take over Greenland, casting a shadow over NATO.

Marco Rubio says US wants regime change in Cuba, admits Iran would be ‘far more complex’ than Venezuela

January 29, 2026 12:04 am

Rubio, who appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was also asked about the future US involvement in Venezuela, a potential strike on Iran, and more.

World Economic Forum at Davos did just enough on Greenland to matter

January 28, 2026 10:10 am

It did not ‘solve’ anything — there was no treaty, no joint communiqué, no new institutional machinery. But it helped steer a fast-moving transatlantic quarrel away from its combustible edges.

Russia monitoring US' Golden Dome plan, Trump's Greenland push, says Kremlin

January 25, 2026 5:44 pm

In a statement to Russian state television, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov questioned the shield’s objective and posed questions which aimed at the nature of threats which the dome would deter.

Greenland's capital Nuuk sees city-wide power outage due to accident

January 25, 2026 11:48 am

The outage comes days after Greenlandic authorities updated emergency preparedness guidelines earlier this week.

‘Does not concern with opinions of those cannot comprehend’: White House responds to trolling of Trump penguin meme

January 24, 2026 10:31 pm

Earlier this week, during his speech at Davos, Trump said he won’t use military force to acquire Greenland.

Donald Trump’s take on ‘lonely penguin’ meme talks of taking over Greenland

January 24, 2026 2:05 pm

Interestingly, the original footage that inspired the meme does not come from Greenland.

The World This Week | Greenland escapes invasion for now, Trump’s Board of Peace and India-EU free trade deal closer to reality

January 24, 2026 7:35 am

From Canada ‘breaking ranks’ with the US to the Board of Peace taking shape – a lot happened in the realm of international politics the past week.

Wrong again, President Trump: The Soviet Union, not the US, stopped Nazi Germany

January 23, 2026 11:03 am

Trump’s remark at Davos, “Without us, right now, you’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps,” betrays his ignorance of history. It was the Soviet forces that played a decisive role in World War II

GREENLAND PHOTOS

Picturesque postcards from Greenland

September 16, 2021 7:51 pm

Here are some breathtaking images from Greenland

Europe, US melt under heat wave as Greenland sees massive ice melt

August 05, 2019 7:53 am

Temperature records that had stood for decades or even just hours fell minute by minute in July and Europeans and tourists alike jumped into fountains, lakes, rivers or the sea to escape a suffocating heat wave rising up from the Sahara.

Greenland residents grapple with global warming

January 15, 2019 7:31 am

As scientists study the threats posed by a warming climate, some of the immediate effects of climate change have been a double-edged sword for some in and around Tasiilaq.

In Greenland, a glacier's collapse shows climate impact

September 21, 2018 6:53 am

The March mission was part of NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project, a five-year, $30 million effort aimed at improving sea level rise projections by understanding how warming oceans are melting ice sheets from below - the most ambitious research on the subject to date

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