On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...
Trump has called Greenland essential for U.S. "national security purposes" and hinted at using military or economic pressure to bring the world's biggest island under American control.
King Frederik of Denmark has taken a cheeky swipe at Donald Trump by changing the country’s royal coat of arms to more noticeably feature Greenland as the US president-elect reiterates his plan to ...