President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk.

Russia once floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland in a forged fundraising letter sent to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton nearly five years ago, according to Danish intelligence. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin and the Trump-Vance transition team for comment by email on Monday.

Geopolitical tensions surrounding Greenland are escalating, with Russia seeking to insert itself into the American-Danish dispute. Speaking on state television, a Russian lawmaker suggested that Greenland should be divided into sections,

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

One European diplomat told Axios that Denmark was widely seen as America’s closest ally in the European Union, and that no one could have imagined it’d be the first Trump would pick a

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The creator of the Danish political TV drama "Borgen", Adam Price, says U.S. President Donald Trump's wish to control Greenland has created an "absurd" reality that has made it more challenging to write political fiction.

Donald Trump spent a noteworthy chunk of the transition period provoking controversy—and insulting NATO allies—with his proposals for expanding the U.S. Maybe most prominently, he has repeatedly discussed buying Greenland from Denmark,

A hardline pro-Putin Russian MP said his country "needs Greenland", after Donald Trump announced his hope to gain control of it.

"We could make a deal with Trump and split Greenland into a couple of pieces," said Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian politician.

Greenland has deposits of 43 of these, according to an Economist magazine report last year. Thirdly, the far North is a stepping stone between North America and Russia. As the ice melts along the ...