Category: World

“We’re going to be very successful in Gaza,” President Trump says, as his administration laid out its vision for post-war reconstruction.

The meeting came as US envoy Steve Witkoff headed to Moscow for a meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Heavy rains have ravaged the country’s North Island, with a minister comparing it to a “war zone”.

The ball is in the court of European leaders ahead of Thursday’s emergency EU meeting in Brussels, writes Nick Beake.

At Davos, the US president said he would not use force to take the island and later floated a possible “forever” deal.

Another eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery and gunfire across Gaza on Wednesday, according to medics.

Some of the president’s fellow Republicans oppose him – but it’s not clear if they would join Democrats to block a takeover of the island.

Trump was due to arrive at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, but a minor electrical issue on Air Force One has forced his plane to turn around.

Trump’s demands over Greenland are a rude awakening in a moment fraught with risk.

The US president says it is “another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired”.