U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference following the NATO summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. Photographer Zhao Dingzhe By Xinhua News Agency The European Union (EU) could help provide security for Greenland if Denmark requests it, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said on Monday, warning that

File Photo/Somali Times The Somalia Cabinet today officially cancelled all security and defence agreements between the Federal Government of Somalia and the United Arab Emirates. Read: Somalia corrupt president Hassan Sheikh failed in both domestic and international politics Read: Somalia President Hassan Sheikh and his family become the richest in Africa Read: Egypt pressures Somalia

By The African Exponent China has been Africa’s largest trading partner for more than two decades, but the nature of that relationship has shifted profoundly. In the early 2000s, trade growth was largely driven by low-cost consumer goods—textiles, electronics, household items—that filled retail markets across African cities. By 2024, however, customs data shows a clear

By Anadolu Agency US President Donald Trump has ordered special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland, the UK-based Daily Mail reported Sunday. Policy “hawks around the US President,” following Washington’s success in carrying in a Jan. 3 military operation in Venezuela that captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Jan. 9, 2026. Photographer Liu Qiong By Xinhua News Agency Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met

People shelter under umbrellas as Storm Goretti brings heavy snowfall and rain to Walsall, Britain, January 8, 2026. Photographer Isabel Infantes By Reuters Strong winds battered France and Britain on Friday as Storm Goretti hit northern Europe, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without power. In France, some 380,000 households lost power, mostly in the

By Anadolu Agency A US woman shot Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in a fatal enforcement operation was identified as Renee Nicole Good. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Good, 37, attempted to hit officers with her vehicle, prompting an agent to fire in what officials described as an act

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers his speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing, China, October 27, 2025. Photographer Maxim Shemetov By Reuters China’s top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, focusing on strategic trade access across eastern and southern Africa as Beijing seeks to

This photo taken with a mobile phone shows people protesting outside a courthouse, which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is brought to, in New York, the United States, on Jan. 5, 2026. Photographer Zhang Fengguo By Xinhua News Agency Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday after his forcible seizure by U.S.

By Anadolu Agency The EU on Tuesday called on Israel to allow international NGOs to deliver life-saving aid to civilians in Palestine, and warned that aid cannot reach the needed scale in Gaza without them. Senior EU officials have urged that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is continuing to deteriorate, as winter conditions set in