We emphasise once again our desire for the US contempt for our country to end, the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement late on Friday. We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world's overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures. The announcement to sever ties with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change came as Trump quit dozens of international organizations that the White House said no longer serve U.S. interests by promoting what it called radical climate policies and other issues.
Colombia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her country would answer any breach of its sovereignty with a military response, in the wake of threats from United States President Donald Trump. At a news conference on Tuesday, Villavicencio underscored that, under international law, countries have the right to self-defence should they be attacked. list of 3 itemsend of list If such aggression were to occur, the military must defend the national territory and the country's sovereignty, she said.
Iran's United Nations ambassador Amir Saeed Iravani has written to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC), urging them to condemn unlawful threats towards Tehran from United States President Donald Trump amid ongoing protests in the country. The letter sent on Friday came hours after Trump said the US was locked and loaded and ready to go if any more protesters were killed in the ongoing demonstrations in Iran over the cost of living.
Responding to the U.S. military's drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, Andreína Chávez says U.S. claims of pursuing fentanyl traffickers lack evidence and are "pretext" for an attempt "to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy" and wrest control of the country's state-owned oil reserves.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace "above and surrounding" Venezuela should be considered as "closed in its entirety," an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a "colonial threat" and seeking to undermine the South American country's sovereignty. The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social platform,
In these uncertain times-whether it is foreign interference directed at our democratic institutions, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its threatening rhetoric toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the surreptitious interest in the Canadian Arctic by Russia and China, peril to key nodes on supply chains such as Taiwan and the Strait of Hormuz, or United States president Donald Trump's taunting that Canada should become the fifty-first state-our sovereignty is under serious threat.
S ince the Quiet Revolution, the question of whether one identifies first as Québécois or Canadian has remained a powerful marker of Quebec's political and cultural life. The ambivalence of Quebec identity is deeply rooted in a long historical evolution-from the "Canadians" of New France before the British conquest to the "French Canadians" after the Act of Union of 1840, and, finally, to the "Quebecers" of today.
Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo. During Matrix's recent Strasbourg conference, more than two dozen public sector entities were noted to have tried (or were currently using) the technology. The vast majority were European, highlighting worries on the continent about dependency on closed and potentially insecure messaging platforms.
In the face of the re-emergence of Trump's border-wall nationalism, Brexit, and increasingly strict European immigration policies, Hannah Arendt's reflections on human rights, statelessness, and her critique of sovereignty raise crucial questions: What could it mean to be a citizen in a political context where there is no nation-state? Can democracy, or more generally politics, be confined to the nation-state? Can we imagine an alternative? Is national affiliation the only framework through which rights can be guaranteed, or can we imagine a politics grounded in human plurality rather than sovereign exclusion?
If Russia gains control over Moldova, the consequences will be immediate and will threaten our country and the entire region. All Moldovans will suffer, regardless of who they voted for. Europe will stop at Moldova's border. Freedom of movement may end and our land could become a launchpad for penetration into Odesa Oblast. The Transnistrian region will be destabilised. These are their plans and they're not hiding them.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has made history as the first woman to lead Mexico's Independence Day celebrations in 215 years, delivering a resolute message against foreign intervention amid ongoing diplomatic pressure from the United States. From the National Palace balcony in Mexico City, Sheinbaum presided over the traditional grito ceremony on Monday night, ringing the bell that symbolises the call to arms during Mexico's 1810-21 independence struggle against Spain.
Jackson and his friends scoured maps and discovered an unclaimed strip of forest that falls outside the borders of Croatia and Serbia, wanting to make it into a country.
Mexican politicians warn that US military action against criminal groups on their soil would be a violation of sovereignty. President Donald Trump has secretly signed an order directing the military to take action against drug-smuggling cartels and other criminal groups from Latin America. Reports indicate Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the US military has approval to take aggressive action against cartels, treating them as armed terrorist organizations.
Critical Signals (NZ) actively engages the community by focusing on kai sovereignty, data sovereignty, and fostering collective resilience to navigate rapid changes and environmental challenges.
Iran's ancient history, marked by enduring invasions, has created a narrative of resilience. Experiences from Alexander to modern times shape its self-perception as a center of civilization.