DENMARK: Parliament today approved a Bill to allow the United States to have military bases on Danish soil, a move that comes as US President Donald Trump seeks to take control of the kingdom’s semi-autonomous and mineral-rich territory of Greenland.

Critics say that the vote ceded Danish sovereignty to the US. The legislation widens a previous military agreement, made in 2023 with the Biden administration, where US troops had broad access to Danish air bases in the Scandinavian country.

UKRAINE: Russian forces launched a new drone assault across Ukraine today, killing three people and wounding 64 others, Ukrainian officials said.

One of the hardest-hit areas was the city of Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine, where 17 attack drones struck two residential districts, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

TURKEY: Ankara will export 48 of its nationally produced Kaan fighter jets to Indonesia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced today, marking the first export deal for the advanced aircraft that is still in the development stage.

President Erdogan said in an X post that the 48 Kaan fighter jets would be manufactured in Turkey and exported to Indonesia, saying that Indonesia’s “local capabilities" would be integrated into the production process.

SOUTH KOREA: The military shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda along the inter-Korean border today, marking the new liberal government’s first concrete step toward easing tensions between the war-divided rivals.

The South resumed the daily loudspeaker broadcasts in June last year following a pause in retaliation for North Korea flying rubbish-filled balloons toward the South in a psychological warfare campaign.