Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political ...

Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

The centre-right opposition has won a surprise victory in legislative elections in Greenland, the Danish territory coveted by ...

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

Elections in Greenland don't tend to draw much outside attention. President Donald Trump's expansionist designs on it have ...

While President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland may have faded from the public’s attention amid other news since he took ...

The United States has maintained a military presence on Greenland since World War II ... “I need a road map.” Image Election posters for the Naleraq party on a bus stop in Nuuk.Credit ...

Greenland's 2009 self-rule law, "establishes basically a road map for independence", he said. Its Article 21 states that a "decision regarding Greenland's independence shall be taken by the people ...

More: Distorted maps have misled you ... of Denmark with its own parliament and prime minister. Greenland is the world’s largest island, spanning more than 835,000 square miles, with around ...

Múte Bourup Egede made the statement on Facebook on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), just hours after Trump declared in his speech to a joint session of Congress that he intends to gain control of ...