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The letter President Donald Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre — first published by PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin and widely reprinted — contains a blunt opening linking Trump’s ...
Congress has moved aggressively to constrain any unilateral U.S. military seizure of Greenland, but its votes are mixed: lawmakers introduced multiple bills and resolutions expressly to bar force or r...
A patchwork of criminal laws governs sex with animals (bestiality/zoophilia): many countries have enacted explicit bans, others rely on animal-cruelty or pornography statutes, and a few jurisdictions ...
Germany has publicly discussed and begun planning a stepped-up NATO role in Greenland and the Arctic, and German naval activity tied to NATO patrols in northern waters has been reported — but definiti...
Pituffik Space Base — long known as Thule Air Base — is the United States’ sole remaining military installation in Greenland, maintained under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark and operated as a S...
Claims that “Swedes are getting dumber” rest on a shaky mix of partial data, contested international rankings, and long‑running research on a so‑called reverse Flynn effect in Scandinavia; serious aca...
If one NATO member attacks another, the alliance’s core legal instrument—Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—creates a collective-defence obligation, but it does not automatically prescribe how All...
Reporting is mixed: several outlets initially listed Canada among NATO partners sending personnel to Denmark’s Greenland exercise, Operation Arctic Endurance, but official Canadian defence spokespeopl...
Laws on sex with animals vary widely: several European countries criminalize bestiality with prison terms of up to two years or more, while a handful of states/countries historically permitted it (sou...
Recent reporting and peer‑reviewed studies show high rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts among transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people, especially youth: surveys report past‑year attempt rates arou...
The Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...
Multiple news reports—many tracing to a Daily Mail story—say Donald Trump instructed senior special-operations commanders to prepare “contingency” or invasion plans for Greenland, but there is no defi...
Only one NATO member — Germany — has publicly announced a specific, finalized small contingent and a narrow timeline for deployment to Greenland: a 13-strong Bundeswehr reconnaissance team to Nuuk, ar...
A small clutch of firms — both local operators and foreign juniors — currently hold Greenland mining permits or run active projects, notably Amaroq Minerals (Nalunaq), Lumina Sustainable Materials (Wh...
Denmark’s ban on full-face veils (burqa and niqab) was passed in 2018 and penalises coverings that conceal the face in public; critics say it violates freedom of religion and expression and disproport...
Several countries and subnational jurisdictions had proposed mandatory age‑verification schemes for adult sites by 2025; some moved to binding rules (notably France and parts of the UK’s Online Safety...
Greenlanders overwhelmingly reject becoming part of the United States and their government has publicly stated it “cannot under any circumstances accept” a U.S. takeover, instead affirming membership ...
Several countries have recently changed or debated laws criminalizing sexual acts with animals (commonly called bestiality or zoophilia). Denmark banned bestiality in 2015 amid concerns it made the co...
Global rules on the minimum age to access pornography are not uniform: . Existing summaries and comparative overviews show a patchwork of approaches—ranging from explicit 16/15 limits in parts of Euro...
Multiple news reports from March through October 2025 document that , but the lists vary and the reasons mix security concerns with objections to U.S. policies, including entry-document rules for gend...