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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Greenland rarely draws global attention. But as ice melts and great powers inch closer, the world’s largest island has become a strategic prize — one that caught President Donald Trump’s eye long before most Americans were paying attention.A semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland is home to a key U.S. military base and has become increasingly important to global security and trade as melting ice opens new shipping lanes and access to natural resources.That shift underscores the serious geopolitical calculation behind Trump’s interest in the island’s location, military value and the rapidly changing…

A 12-year-old boy is in critical condition after being bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, officials said Monday.The boy was jumping off rocks with friends near what is known as Shark Beach in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse when he was attacked Sunday afternoon by what officials believe was a bull shark, leaving him with severe injuries to both legs.“He is in for the fight of his life now, and the actions of emergency services yesterday gave him that chance,” Joseph McNulty, commander of the New South Wales Police Marine Area Command, told reporters.The attack comes after days…

Keir Starmer has told Donald Trump he is wrong to threaten tariffs against Nato allies to try to secure Greenland, as part of a flurry of diplomatic calls intended to tackle the crisis.The UK prime minister spoke to the US president on Sunday, as well as to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish PM, whose country’s territory includes Greenland; Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission; and Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general.“In all his calls, the prime minister reiterated his position on Greenland. He said that security in the high north is a priority for all Nato allies…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A month after President Donald Trump scrapped free national parks entry on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom is responding – opening more than 200 California state parks for free to honor Dr. King while calling out Trump’s move.Last month, the Trump administration reshaped when Americans can enter national parks for free, scrapping Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth and National Public Lands Day from the 2026 calendar.In their place, the administration added a slate of historically themed or presidentially themed dates. Flag day – which also happens to be…

There are liberal reformers, such as human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi or former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh.But all of these are either languishing in jails or under house arrest. The regime “has been very good at repressing dissent by jailing dissidents or forcing them into exile,” said Slavin.The prince across the seaBest known among the alternatives is Reza Pahlavi, the self-styled “crown prince” who has lived most of his life exiled in the United States.He is the son of the country’s former king, or shah, whose decadeslong autocratic…

Seventy metres down, in deep incognito beneath a disguised ventilation shaft in the Chilterns countryside, lies HS2’s buried treasure: two 10-mile tunnels, built to avoid an area of outstanding natural beauty, eerily spectacular in gleaming concrete.They are, laments a staffer on the high-speed railway scheme, what all of the route should look like by now: pristine, fully constructed, and just waiting for a railway to run through them.The ballooning cost of HS2, and the construction delays that have dogged the project, have provoked much soul-searching and bluster about a supposed national inability to build infrastructure.Main tunnelling was completed last year,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former House Speaker and self-proclaimed “Deadhead” Nancy Pelosi drew swift online backlash after appearing at a tribute honoring Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, with some social media users accusing her of bizarre behavior. Thousands gathered Saturday at San Francisco’s Civic Center to celebrate the life of Weir, who died earlier this month at age 78. The event drew longtime “Deadheads,” musicians and political figures, including Pelosi, according to FOX 2. Pelosi, 85, delivered a speech about Weir and appeared to sing and sway along on stage as musician John Mayer performed the Grateful Dead…

LONDON — It has been a familiar sight over the past decade: Prince Harry on the steps of a British courthouse for the latest round of his battle with a tabloid newspaper.But if, as expected, he arrives at London’s High Court again on Monday, it could be the final time he takes on the British press, which he has accused of bullying and harassment and has blamed for the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. And some royal watchers say the end of his legal campaign could pave the way for a reconciliation with his father, King Charles…

The Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has joined Reform UK, the party has announced.Rosindell, the MP for Romford since 2001, said on X that he had joined the Conservative party at the age of 14, inspired by the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher but that “the time has come to put country before party”.“The failure of the Conservative party both when in government and more recently in opposition to actively hold the government to account on the issue of Chagossian self-determination and the defence of British sovereignty, represents a clear red line for me.“Since entering parliament in 2001, I have consistently…

Has Europe had enough?After more than a year of cautious diplomacy, high-stakes flattery and efforts to keep trans-Atlantic cooperation intact, European leaders now find themselves confronting perhaps the sharpest challenge yet from the White House.President Donald Trump said Saturday he will impose sweeping new tariffs on eight key European allies that will ratchet up unless Denmark agrees to hand over Greenland, resurrecting one of his most provocative foreign policy obsessions as he threatens the territory of a NATO ally.The ultimatum marks the latest escalation in a pattern that has seen Europe repeatedly forced onto the back foot during Trump’s second…