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Trump news at a glance: Vance stakes US claim for Greenland as island’s new coalition insists it ‘belongs to us’

US VP JD Vance, centre, poses with second lady Usha Vance, national security adviser Mike Waltz, his wife , former homeland security adviser, Julia Nesheiwat (all left) and energy secretary Chris Wright, right, at the Pituffik space base in Greenland.
JD Vance (C) at the Pituffik space base in Greenland. As he visited, Donald Trump reiterated his claim that the US should own Greenland to help “world peace”. Photograph: Jim Watson/AP

JD Vance told troops in Greenland that the US has to gain control of the Arctic island to stop the threat of China and Russia as he doubled down on his criticism of Denmark, which he said has “not done a good job”.

As the US vice-president toured Pituffik space base, Donald Trump reiterated his previous claims that the US needs Greenland for “world peace”. “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it,” the US president said at a press conference at the White House on Friday. “And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them.”

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