Trump confirms interest in
buying Greenland
AFP, Washington
US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed his interest in buying Greenland, but said it was not a priority for his administration.
“It’s something we talked about,” Trump told reporters. “The concept came up and I said certainly, strategically it’s interesting and we’d be interested, but we’ll talk to (Denmark) a little bit,” he said, stressing that it was “not number one on the burner” for the government.
Turkey removes 3 pro-Kurdish
mayors from office
AP, Ankara
In a new government crackdown on a pro-Kurdish party, Turkey on Monday removed from office the elected mayors of three cities in the mostly Kurdish-populated southeast region over their alleged links to rebels, replacing them with government appointees.
The mayors of the cities of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Van – members of the People’s Democratic Party, or HDP – were sacked over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and over evidence that they had allegedly aided the outlawed organization, an Interior Ministry statement said.
Thousands riot in Papua, parliament building torched
AFP, Manokwari
Riots broke out and a local parliament building was torched in Indonesia’s Papua on Monday, as thousands protested against the weekend detention of pro-independence student activists.
An AFP reporter on the scene estimated several thousand protesters took to the streets of Manokwari, the capital of West Papua province, bringing the city of some 130,000 to a standstill. Some demonstrators also set fire to shops and vehicles, knocked down street signs, and threw rocks at government buildings.
E. Guinea denies building wall along Cameroon border
AFP, Malabo
Equatorial Guinea’s foreign affairs minister has denied that the country is building a wall along its border with Cameroon. “Those who talk of a wall lack information,” Oyono Esono Angue said on Radio Equatorial Guinea on Friday.
The first official response from the government on the subject came during a visit to Yaounde to deliver a letter from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema to his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya.
Putin, Macron to meet for French-Russian talks before G-7
AP, Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in southern France to discuss the world’s major crises, including Ukraine, Iran and Syria, and try to improve Moscow’s relations with the European Union.
Macron has invited Putin on Monday afternoon to his summer residence, the Fort de Bregancon on the French Riviera, for a meeting followed by dinner, just a few days.
before opening a meeting of the Group of Seven nations in the French city of Biarritz with U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders.
