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Greenland’s prime minister has accused Washington of interfering in its political affairs with the deliberate go to of an American delegation this week to the Arctic island coveted by Donald Trump.
“It should be said clearly that our integrity and democracy must be respected without foreign interference,” Múte Egede mentioned on Monday, including that the go to by the nationwide safety adviser, Mike Waltz, and the second woman, Usha Vance, “cannot be seen as just a private visit”.
Fears are rising that the worldwide rules-based order in place for the reason that second world struggle is beneath risk amid Trump’s expansionist threats, that are unprecedented for a US president in fashionable occasions.
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What do Greenlanders consider Trump’s need for the territory? A January opinion ballot discovered 85% don’t wish to be part of the US, 6% do, and 9% are undecided, based on Verian.
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Right here’s how the rules-based order is beneath risk: Article two of the UN constitution of 1945 states that “all members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”. However with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Trump’s feedback about buying Greenland, Canada, the Panama canal and Gaza, the duvet story of Overseas Affairs journal lately mentioned: “Conquest is back.”
‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza medical doctors recount horrors of final week
An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza has killed 5 individuals, together with the Hamas political chief Ismail Barhoum and Palestinian medics, Hamas has mentioned, in an assault that Israel mentioned had focused a key determine within the militant group.
Docs in Gaza have been grappling with Israel’s renewed offensive that introduced an finish to the delicate ceasefire, with a ferocious bombardment beginning final Tuesday. Palestinian medical officers say greater than 200 individuals have been killed on Tuesday morning alone throughout Gaza, and a whole bunch extra injured.
Inside 5 days, as extra airstrikes and shelling continued, the general loss of life toll within the devastated Palestinian territory for the 18-month struggle would attain 50,000, largely ladies and kids, the well being ministry mentioned, with 113,274 others injured.
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How do medics describe the horrors of final week? “There was just wave after wave,” mentioned Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care physician at Nasser hospital. “As soon as patients had died or been sent elsewhere and we cleared some space, more would come in. It was chaos. One doctor stepped on a corpse on the ground as he tried to do a life-saving procedure on a child.”
As deportations ramp up, IRS nears take care of Ice to share information of undocumented immigrants, say stories
The US Inside Income Service (IRS) is reportedly nearing a deal to permit immigration officers to make use of tax information to assist Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, based on reporting from the Washington Submit.
Below the proposed data-sharing settlement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) might hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, elevating considerations about abuse of energy from the Trump administration and the erosion of privateness rights.
In the meantime, on Sunday the Trump administration defended utilizing the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a wartime legislation, to deport 137 Venezuelans final weekend on the grounds that they have been committing violent crimes and sending a reimbursement to Venezuela.
The administration deported them regardless of a decide’s verbal orders telling it not to take action, elevating fears of a constitutional disaster as the federal government’s govt department appeared to disregard or drag its ft on direct orders from the judicial department.
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What did the border tsar, Tom Homan, say to defend the actions? “I don’t care what the judges think as far as this case,” Homan informed ABC.
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Talks between the US and Russia are to be held in Saudi Arabia on Monday, as Washington signalled its hope for “real progress” on a ceasefire whereas Moscow warned of “difficult negotiations”.
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Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, has referred to as a snap election for 28 April, firing the beginning gun on a marketing campaign to be dominated by US-Canada relations.
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South Korea’s Han Duck-soo has been reinstated as performing president, after the constitutional courtroom struck down impeachment.
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1000’s of individuals protested in Istanbul after a courtroom formally arrested town’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on corruption costs, on the day he obtained his celebration’s nomination to run for president.
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The golfer Tiger Woods confirmed he’s in a relationship with Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump, who was married to Donald Trump Jr from 2005 to 2018.
Stat of the day: US states verify 378 measles instances this 12 months amid vaccine misinformation
Extra states are reporting measles instances amid vaccine misinformation and hesitancy, with 378 confirmed instances thus far within the first few months of 2025, in contrast with 285 for all of 2024. Texas has had 40 hospitalizations and one loss of life, of an unvaccinated six-year-old woman.
Don’t miss this: ‘You couldn’t belief anybody’: Argentina’s navy dictatorship – a photograph essay
After recording the brutality of Argentina’s Videla regime, the photographer José Luis Ledesma fled to Italy. He discusses the navy dictatorship, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Javier Milei and being Diego Maradona’s private photographer.
Local weather examine: Three wildfires burn greater than 3,300 acres in North and South Carolina
Three main wildfires that broke out in a single North Carolina county nonetheless recovering from Hurricane Helene have exploded to burn greater than 1,335 hectares (3,000 acres), as South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency.
Final Factor: From The Simpsons to Werner Herzog – the best, craziest, scariest Loch Ness monsters
As a brand new stage manufacturing premieres in Scotland, we take a look at one of the best interpretations of the Loch Ness monster, from The Simpsons – who despatched Mr Burns to do battle with the creature – to Werner Herzog, within the mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness.
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