The BBC’s Faisal Islam was in the room when President Trump told his audience that he would not use force in Greenland, but also launched a long argument for why the US should own it.

Russian troops shelled the Kherson region with artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, and drones throughout the day, killing one person and injuring another.

About 19,000 civilians, including 200 children, remain in the shelled town of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast, where the situation is currently the most difficult.

Japan restarts a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima meltdown.

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

Pilots from the Pentagon Battalion’s interceptors shot down a Russian Knyaz Veshchy Oleg reconnaissance drone, the cutting-edge development from the aggressor country, in the skies over Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The Polish government is changing the rules for providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees. A special law introduced after the start of the war in Ukraine is gradually being rolled back, and access to medical services will be limited.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated he will not yield to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland.

An international campaign to save the pitch in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem appears to have forced the authorities to reconsider.

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.