Jon Henley

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jon Henley

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it. “I don’t think that’s what allies do,” Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying “France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenland on his way to a summit of G7 leaders in Canada.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jon Henley

The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honour, the country’s highest distinction, after his conviction for corruption was confirmed last year, according to an official decree published on Sunday. The conservative one-term president has been beset by legal problems since leaving office in 2012. In December France’s highest court upheld his conviction for influence peddling and corruption, ordering him to wear an electronic ankle tag for 12 months.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jon Henley

Barely one-third of people polled across 24 countries say they have confidence in Donald Trump as a world leader, with most describing the US president as “arrogant” and “dangerous”, and relatively few as “honest”. The survey of more than 28,000 people by the Pew Research Center also found that opinions of the US had worsened over the past year in more than half the countries polled – including falls of 20-plus points in Mexico, Sweden, Poland and Canada.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jon Henley

At least 10 people have been killed and more seriously injured in a shooting at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz, authorities have said. The mayor of Graz, Elke Kahr, said the presumed shooter and several students were among the fatalities in the attack, the deadliest in Austria’s postwar history. Local media reported the attack began at about 10am local time when a gunman opened fire in two classrooms.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jon Henley

The Netherlands’ biggest centre-right party has ruled out forming another coalition government with Geert Wilders as its leader called him “an unbelievably untrustworthy partner” and a “quitter” who “puts his own interests above those of the country”. In a significant blow to the far-right firebrand’s hopes of returning to power, Dilan Yeşilgözleader of the VVD, said late on Monday that her party would not enter another government with Wilders after elections, due on 29 October.