President Donald Trump told NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday that U.S. control of Greenland is necessary to enhance international security, escalating his campaign to annex the strategic Arctic island.

The U.S. military must work to provide options to ensure the United States has full access to the Panama Canal, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agreed with the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but that “questions” remained about the nature of a truce as he set out a number of tough conditions.

Foreign ministers of leading Western democracies sought to show a united front in Canada.

Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City.

The potential scale of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government could become clearer on Thursday, the deadline for government agencies to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets.

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle.

Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said, adding that laboratory confirmation of the disease was “a major alert” for the country’s health officials.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.

Indian authorities arrested at Washington’s request a cryptocurrency exchange administrator accused of money laundering conspiracy and violating sanctions, India’s top crime fighting bureau said on Wednesday.

China’s embassy in New Zealand accused Wellington’s top spy of “spreading false information” today, after the intelligence chief warned of security risks posed by Beijing’s growing influence in the Pacific.

South Korean military investigators charged two Air Force pilots today with criminal negligence over an accidental bombing of a village last week during a training exercise, which injured at least 29 people and caused extensive property damage.