Crowds gather and wave the flag of Greenland to protest against US president Donald Trump and his proposal to take over Greenland in the capital Nuuk. Photograph: Juliette Pavy/The New York Times
Donald Trump’s announcement of a “framework of a future deal” that would settle the issue of Greenland after weeks of escalating threats has been met with scepticism in the Arctic territory.
The doubts were raised even as financial markets rebounded and European leaders welcomed a reprieve from further punitive tariffs.
Just hours after the US president used his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos to insist he wanted Greenland, “including right, title and ownership,” but backed away from his more bellicose threats of military intervention – Mr Trump took to social media to announce “the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland”.
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