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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Don't invade Greenland, Britain urges Trump after raid on Venezuela to seize dictator Maduro

Britain urged Donald Trump not to send American troops to seize Greenland after the US president repeated his desire to take control of the vast frozen territory.

Other European leaders warned Trump against action to capture Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, following the US military operation in Venezuela to snatch dictator Nicolas Maduro and fly him to America to face charges of narco-terrorism which he denies.

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