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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.
President Trump says the U.S., Denmark and Greenland have entered into an agreement giving America permanent control over security in Greenland. In a post on social media, Mr. Trump said the deal would prevent any U.S. adversary from ever having a military presence in the autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic. Andrew Ochieng reports. Mr. Trump has long wanted Greenland to be part of the U.S. At some point he even threatened to annex the island by force. But it's now emerged that secret talks were being held by the three sides to resolve the matter. The U.S. president says the deal will give America control over all the needs of Greenland forever. Greenland and Denmark have said the agreement, which is to be signed next week, strengthens security in the Arctic and is good for the NATO military alliance. But unlike the U.S., they didn't say what it contains. However, Denmark's prime minister said it would have to be passed by the Danish parliament to be effective. Donald Trump says he's banning three prominent American news organizations from the White House with immediate effect. The U.S. president has accused CNN, MS Now and Politico of reporting fake news. CNN said its White House journalists had been reporting accurately and fairly. Mr. Trump explained his decision during a news conference. "It's really just cumulative stories over the last few years. You get sick of it and you call them and you tell them I have very good experts and they try and explain things. They know that they know it. They know it as well as smart people but they purposely write negative news and they do that because they wanna try and diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration." President Trump has said his son, Donald Trump Jr., told him he would repay a Russian businessman linked to the Kremlin who paid for two days of Donald Jr.'s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas. Democrats in the U.S. Congress are investigating reports that Umar Kremlev, an ally of President Putin, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the wedding celebrations in May. Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has asked for a full and transparent investigation into the deaths and custody of 37 suspected illegal miners in Minna. The victims died in a detention center run by a government paramilitary force. Here's Makuachi Okafor. I have spoken to some of the people actually who survived and they did say that detention cells where they were kept was quite overcrowded. You know, some even talked about watching people near them die and calling out for help. Now, the state authorities haven't confirmed this. They have only said originally they had thought it was a disease outbreak but now they are saying they can't say specifically what might have caused the deaths. World news from the BBC. The Governor of California Gavin Newsom is setting up an expert panel to propose ways to strengthen safety rules for artificial intelligence, including the possibility of a so-called "kill switch" for programs that go rogue. Governor Newsom, a Democrat, accused the Trump administration of being "asleep at the wheel" in terms of regulation and oversight of AI as warnings grow about its potential threat to humanity. A tribunal tasked with investigating crimes committed during Colombia's half-century civil conflict says it's worried about a government proposal to cut its funds. This report from Clizia Sala. The special tribunal was formed in 2016 under Colombia's peace agreement to investigate crimes committed by rebel groups and state forces during the country's decades-long civil conflict. In his election campaign, President Abelardo de la Espriella criticized the court as ineffective and expensive. He's called for more aggressive means to deal with the numerous armed groups in Colombia and has said each of them will be treated as a terrorist group. He's not offered a robust proposal on how to handle atrocities committed by state forces. The tribunal has asked the international community to help keep it running and to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses. The European and North and Central American football federations have urged FIFA to release more than $2 billion from its reserves to share among its 211 member associations. UEFA and CONCACAF have also called for an independent review of FIFA's finances. The U.S. has lifted sanctions on the Eritrean military and other entities and individuals that were imposed in 2021 [over their war in] over their role in the war in neighboring Ethiopia's Tigray province. The Treasury Department said the humanitarian human rights crisis that prompted the sanctions had expired. BBC News. |