Canada and Denmark have agreed on a mechanism to settle a sovereignty dispute over Hans' Island, an uninhabitable 1.2-square-kilometer territory in the Arctic Ocean which will be split into two ...

The BBC investigates possible scenarios for the huge Arctic territory's future as the US president-elect talks about taking ...

Danish leaders have sent private messages to President-elect Donald Trump’s team in recent days in a bid to pacify his ambitions for taking over ... fight. Greenland had been a colony of Denmark ...

Far in the Arctic North lies the barren and desolate Hans Island ... fight over. However, since the early 1930s, this nondescript rock has been at the center of an ongoing disagreement between ...

Faced with increasing pressure from President Donald Trump to hand over the strategically important island of Greenland to the U.S., Denmark has announced plans to beef up its military presence there.

Canada once 'fought' a pseudo-war over a nearby ... affairs of the island since 1721, when a combination of Danes and Norwegians settled there. During the Second World War, Denmark was occupied ...