WAR & PEACEJE Lindblom: "When Russia and China develop the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic, they do so for one simple reason: to escape the US's naval stranglehold, and that is precisely why Greenland is crucial."

WAR & PEACEThe statement comes as President Donald Trump confirmed the deployment of a significant US naval presence to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier strike group, amid ongoing protests and economic turmoil in Iran.

MIDDLE EASTTrump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, gave a speech about far advanced plans for the redevelopment of a new Gaza.

EUROPEThere was a time when citizenship meant something solid. A guarantee. That illusion is now dead. The case of Mark Bullen makes that brutally clear...

WORLDChinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have agreed to launch a new strategic partnership. Carl Bildt, former Swedish PM, regards this as a positive development and something for the EU to follow.

CHINAChina and Canada look to a "new strategic partnership" amid growing geopolitical fragmentation, as President Xi Jinping met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Beijing on Friday.