The "bizarre incident" with Lindsey Graham at the Munich Security Conference confronting and insulting Danish leaders has caused enough disquiet that Berlingske newspaper has done two unusual things with the story: translated it into English, and unpaywalled it.
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If you thought Trump had abandoned the insane idea of annexing 🇬🇱, think again! This is what the White House posted on SoMe overnight👇🏻
By the way, there are no penguins in 🇬🇱🙈
🇸🇪 most serious journalists are writing about potentially building a Northern European nuclear weapons—and for Sweden to lead on the issue.
“[Sweden] has repeatedly displayed the tendency to act only once things have truly gone too far... Only we can do something to change that.”
In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland.
This is the reality for Ukrainians right now -people are setting up tents right inside their apartments just to keep themselves&their pets a little warmer.
Russia continues its brutal genocide by every possible means, but Ukrainians are resourceful and will endure no matter what
📹 kuklovod_kriva
Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland have struck close to home. Canadians are well aware that the rationale for wanting Greenland – its resources and position in a contested Arctic – also applies to Canada. https://bit.ly/4pDSedO
Black and white portrait of a girl with a bow in their hair, wearing a collared shirt and sweater.
18 January 1925 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Vera Weisz, was born in Kisvárda.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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📖 Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
During a dozen years under President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s socialist state detained thousands of political prisoners.
When U.S. special operators captured him on Jan. 3, at least 800 remained in custody without trial or access to an attorney.
European Union member states are discussing several options for how to respond to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat, including imposing retaliatory levies on €93 billion ($108 billion) of US goods, according to people familiar with the talks.
The world turns at a crazy pace.
It's only 18 January and 2026 has already seen Venezuela, Iran, now Greenland again dominate the news.
And through it all, innocent residents in Ukraine continue to freeze after the illegal invasion of their country nears a 5th year.
Here's the🧵
🔥🇷🇺 Russia’s utilities are collapsing. Millions without heat, water, electricity, gas — and no, this isn’t because of Ukrainian strikes. It’s the result of billions burned on destroying Ukraine instead of maintaining their own systems.
#RussiaIsCollapsing #MakeRussiaSmallAgain #StandWithUkraine
Happy to, we're already collecting and archiving material and using it for reporting.
As I well know, but I also know from a decade plus of experience that its far more effective to have processes in place to make that footage usuable than just hoping something is so terrible that it breaks through.
But what happens with that documentation is the question. Documenting for documentations sake when there's no path to any outcomes limits its usefulness.
Ukrainians kneel only once: to honor their fallen warriors. Never to kings, never to dictators. 💔
Ukrainian hero laid to rest in hometown.
Fallen defender Serhii Simchuk was killed in action in the Donetsk region in July 2024. Following a months-long identification process in Dnipro, Simchuk was finally returned to his family and buried Friday in his hometown of Dubyshche.
Kharkiv lives on. January 2026.
🎥: evgenia_tarabarenko
Men! Her er det som bekendt vigtigt at huske, at Adolf faktisk byggede nogle rigtigt fine motorveje. Det skal med i overvejelserne, inden man bare fordømmer ham en bloc. #SubSkeet
"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!... HELP IS ON ITS WAY" - Trump.
#Kyiv
Out of 6,000 buildings, heat is currently being restored to up to 32 additional high-rise apartment buildings, where the work is most complex.
📷Natalia Mazina
Gemeinsame Erklärung von Dänemark, Finnland, Frankreich, Deutschland, den Niederlanden, Norwegen, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich.
Joint statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Trump wants everyone to believe he needs to take Greenland to protect the US from the guy he made American soldiers roll out the red carpet for in Alaska.
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“.. We either fight a trade war, or we’re in a real war.”
@nytimes.com #bazooka
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It’s unusually cold in Kyiv and Russia has wrecked Ukraine’s energy supply. The situation is seriously dire.
@lapatina.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org have set up a fundraiser for portable batteries for Kyiv. Please consider this if you can.
President Zelensky said nearly 58,000 energy and repair workers are restoring power and heat across Ukraine after ongoing Russian attacks targeting the energy system. Extra crews have been sent to Kyiv, where many homes remain without heating. He thanked all teams working day and night.
News Analysis: After President Trump threatened a trade war over Greenland, Europe is weighing retaliating with an “anti-coercion instrument,” a tool that could be used to limit American companies that do large amounts of business on the continent.
