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The Truman administration saw huge strategic value in the island as a geographic bulwark against the Soviet Union. Ultimately, the U.S. got access to Greenland without needing to purchase it.
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The president said he would postpone a planned trip to the Scandinavian country after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his idea of buying the island "absurd."
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The president confirmed a recent report in The Wall Street Journal that he'd asked his advisers to look into purchasing the Arctic island. But Denmark's prime minister says Greenland is not for sale.
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The giant mountain of ice towers is threatening a tiny village, causing authorities to evacuate residents.
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Britain is being described as the first country to leave the European Union. That may be true on a technicality, but others left the pan-European body in the past.