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Faced with Trump's Threats over Greenland, Denmark's Leader Seeks Support from Her EU Partners
Associated Press | By Lorne Cook
Published February 03, 2025

BRUSSELS — Denmark’s prime minister insisted on Monday that Greenland is not for sale and called for a robust response from her European Union partners should U.S. President Donald Trump press ahead with his threat to take control of the island.

“I will never support the idea of fighting allies. But of course, if the U.S. puts tough terms on Europe, we need a collective and robust response,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters in Brussels as EU leaders gathered for defense talks.

Greenland, home to a large U.S. military base, is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally. Last month, Trump left open the possibility that the American military might be used to secure Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal. “We need Greenland for national security purposes,” he said.

Frederiksen said she has “great support” from her EU partners on the fact “that everybody has to respect the sovereignty of all national states in the world, and that Greenland is today a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It’s part of our territory and it’s not for sale.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/03/faced-trumps-threats-over-greenland-denmarks-leader-seeks-support-her-eu-partners.html

Trump says US will 'take over' Gaza: 'We'll own it'
In a stunning proposal, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. will "take over" the Gaza Strip, "level the site" and rebuild it, after earlier saying Palestinians living there should leave.

"They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony" in other areas or countries, he said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out," he said.
"Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area," he added. "Do a real job. Do something different."
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"I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East. And everybody I have spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly," he continued. "Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-us-will-take-take-over-gaza-we-ll-own-it/ar-AA1yqmdD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3f14ba976290403bb5d7122db5e518cb&ei=16

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr211EKedVQ

Elon musk wants to export white South africans to the U.S because Blacks Africans are persecuting them

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest.

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s political deputy at the foreign ministry, had called on other leaders to open schools for girls and women in January and said the edict forbidding them from schools was not in line with Sharia law as the hardline rulers claimed.

“There is no excuse for this – not now and not in the future,” Mr Stanikzai, a political studies and military school graduate, had said. “We are being unjust to 20 million people,” referring to nearly half of the Afghanistan population of girls and women.

His public remarks, made at a graduation ceremony in Khost province, were the first such against the Taliban’s education diktat and confirmed a rare sign of internal divisions around one of the flagship policies of Afghanistan’s de facto rulers.

For more than three years, the Taliban have imposed a strict nationwide ban on female education, preventing girls and women from attending school beyond the sixth grade despite international isolation.

Shortly after the speech, the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada reportedly ordered Mr Stanikzai’s arrest and issued a travel ban against him, prohibiting him from stepping back in Afghanistan.

However, the Taliban leader had left for the United Arab Emirates before he could have been held, reported the news channel Afghanistan International.

Mr Stanikzai also confirmed to the local media last week that he had left for Dubai but for health reasons.

This is not the first time the senior Taliban leader, viewed as moderate within the Taliban ranks, called for restoring the education of Afghan girls and women.

In September 2022, a year after the Taliban took control of Kabul, Mr Stanikzai had said that no one has a religious reason which can justify depriving girls of education, calling schools and colleges obligatory for both genders.

His escape to a neighbour ally comes amid reports of a growing rift inside the two factions of the Taliban leadership, with power centres situated in Kabul and Kandahar, from where the Taliban’s supreme leader assumes the powerful seat and rules without making any public appearance.

There is debate about the education ban inside Taliban leadership, according to the US’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), an autonomous body overseeing the reconstruction of the war-battered nation.
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-minister-flees-country-as-issue-of-girls-education-divides-leadership/ar-AA1yny6D?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f887c6ac0d1d4979a563c9fca619d433&ei=17

Congo's army and Burundian allies slow M23 rebel's southern march
Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels seeking to expand their grip on eastern Congo in a weeks-old advance that has raised fears of a broader regional conflict.
Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo which is home to lucrative gold, coltan and tin ore mines. They then shifted their focus to Bukavu in neighboring South Kivu province and made some progress toward that objective.
Source: Reuters

Rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo vow to take fight to country's capital despite resistance
Rwanda-backed rebels aiming to gain power have already captured Goma, a key city in eastern DRC. They have vowed to advance to the capital, more than 1,500km away - but have met resistance from the Congolese army and its allies.
Friday 31 January 2025 15:40, UK

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have vowed to take their fight to the country's capital – but their attempts to march south are have been met by resistance.

Rwanda-backed rebels aiming to gain power have already captured Goma, a key city in eastern DRC.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/rebels-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-vow-to-take-fight-to-countrys-capital-despite-resistance-13300219

Paul Kagame Warns South Africa: Rwanda Prepared for War “Any Day”
Tim. E. Ndoro by Tim. E. Ndoro January 30, 2025 in South Africa

Paul Kagame Warns South Africa: Rwanda Ready for Confrontation “Any Day”
In a chilling response to South Africa, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has declared that his country is prepared for confrontation “any day.” This stark warning comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s comments on the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where 13 South African soldiers recently lost their lives. Kagame accused South Africa of distorting facts, spreading lies, and overstepping its role as a mediator in the crisis. The tense exchange has sparked fears of further instability in a region already plagued by violence.
Source: https://iharare.com/paul-kagame-warns-south-africa-rwanda-prepared-for-war-any-day/

Who are the M23?
The M23 are led by ethnic Tutsis, who say they needed to take up arms to protect the rights of the minority group.

They say that several previous deals to end the fighting have not been respected - they take their name from a peace agreement that was signed on 23 March 2009.

Shortly after its creation in 2012, the M23 rapidly gained territory and seized Goma – acts that were met with international opprobrium and accusations of war crimes and human rights violations.

It was forced to withdraw from Goma, and then suffered a series of heavy defeats at the hands of the Congolese army along with a UN force that saw it expelled from the country.

M23 fighters then agreed to be integrated into the army in return for promises that Tutsis would be protected.

But, in 2021, the group took up arms again, saying the promises had been broken.
Read more at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgly1yrd9j3o

puremaker7:
This guy na baba weyrey....
And why should we be having more of his news these days on nairaland

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States could pay a “small fee” to foreign countries to imprison Americans who are repeat criminal offenders, floating a kind of modern-day penal colony.

Trump billed the idea as a cost-saving measure in remarks at a conference for House Republicans in Miami.
Source : https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-foreign-imprisonment-us-criminals-repeat-offenders-rcna189522

phorget:
Sambisa is of no use to Nigeria, I wish Trump would have the interest in it acquisition.