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Le président états-unien assure qu’«il n’y a pas de retour en arrière possible» concernant sa volonté de s’emparer du Groenland et s’en prend désormais directement à Emmanuel Macron, qui a jugé son chantage aux droits de douane «inacceptable».

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — In an extraordinary message to Norway’s prime minister, President Donald Trump linked his pursuit of the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He repeated his long-debunked claim that he ended eight wars. And he made another false claim – that no written documents support Denmark’s ownership of Greenland. “Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also,” Trump wrote. In reality, Nordic boats began arriving in Greenland centuries before the United States even existed; the settlement that became Greenland’s capital of Nuuk was established by a Danish-Norwegian missionary in the early 1700s, decades before US independence. Of course, the history of many countries, including the US, also involved Europeans arriving by boat and claiming territory in regions previously populated by Indigenous peoples. But just as that wasn’t the end of the story for the US, it’s not the end of the story for Greenland. There are numerous written documents recognizing Danish sovereignty over Greenland – some of them signed by the US government during this century and the last. “Donald Trump’s claim is false, again,” said Marc Jacobsen, associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College who is an expert on Arctic security and diplomacy. He noted that Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland has been repeatedly recognized internationally, “not least” by the US. Below is a sampling of the documents the president suggested do not exist. 1916 As part of a deal in which Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the US, where they renamed them the US Virgin Islands, the US agreed in 1916 to issue a written declaration acknowledging Danish sovereignty over Greenland. Then-Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the declaration that, “duly authorized by his Government,” he had “the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.” 1933 In 1931, Norway occupied and claimed sovereignty over part of eastern Greenland. But after the dispute landed at the Permanent Court of International Justice (later replaced by the International Court of Justice), the court issued a ruling in 1933 in favor of Denmark’s argument that it had sovereignty over all of Greenland. Among various other factors, the judges cited another document: an 1814 treaty in which Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden but Denmark retained Greenland. 1941 An agreement signed during World War II by the US secretary of state and the Danish ambassador to the US, while Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, gave the US broad powers to construct and operate military facilities in Greenland. But that agreement explicitly and repeatedly acknowledged Danish sovereignty over Greenland. “Although the sovereignty of Denmark over Greenland is fully recognized, the present circumstances for the time being prevent the Government in Denmark from exercising its powers in respect of Greenland,” the preamble to the agreement explained. The agreement itself said, “The Government of the United States of America reiterates its recognition of and respect for the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Den­mark over Greenland,” the agreement said. It also said, “The Kingdom of Denmark retains sovereignty over the defense areas mentioned in the preceding articles.” 1951 After the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, the US and Denmark signed an updated agreement to incorporate NATO into their 1941 arrangement and to set some rules governing the US military presence in Greenland. Before laying out US powers in the “defense areas” in which the US military was permitted to operate in Greenland, the agreement…

La lutte contre l’immigration menée par le président depuis son retour au pouvoir s’est encore accélérée après le meurtre, en novembre, d’une membre de la garde nationale par un jeune réfugié. En Arizona, un centre aide les Afghans pris dans les méandres administratifs.

Aux États-Unis, l’espace informationnel de 2026 n’a plus rien à voir avec celui de 2016 ni même de 2020. L’administration Trump a construit ses propres canaux de communication vers le public, attaque les médias traditionnels et sape toute capacité indépendante à documenter des faits.

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been new cases in the United States each week since. Texas reported more than 760 cases — and the deaths of two children – before declaring the outbreak over in August. It was the largest outbreak the US had seen in decades, and since then, other large outbreaks — one in the upstate region of South Carolina and another on the border of Utah and Arizona — have amassed hundreds of cases each and continue to expand. The first two weeks of 2026 have been some of the worst yet, with exposures reported at schools, churches, restaurants, shops, airports and more. The continuous spread of measles over the past year leaves the US at risk of losing elimination status, which the country has held since 2000. “It is startling, because just a few years ago measles was very rare in the United States,” said Dr. Caitlin Rivers, ​an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Now we’re seeing in a single week what we might have seen in an average year,” she said. “There’s been a real shift in the presence of this preventable disease in our life.” Whether that balance can shift back depends on how quickly the US can improve vaccination coverage, experts say – which, in many ways, has become an uphill battle. The US reported more than 2,200 confirmed measles cases in 2025 — significantly more than there have been in any year since measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. At least ​171 measles cases have been reported in the first two weeks of 2026, which is nearly as many as the average annual total in those 25 years since elimination in the US. The vast majority of cases — more than 95% — have been in people who had not been vaccinated with the recommended two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Experts fear that the situation may have to get much worse before it gets better. It’s particularly devastating, they say, because the illnesses and deaths they foresee are almost entirely preventable with the help of vaccines — but lagging coverage has left many vulnerable. It’s not clear yet whether the US will maintain its measles elimination status. In April, the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization, will formally make the determination. The decision will require detailed review of epidemiological and laboratory evidence to understand patterns of measles spread over the past year — including whether more recent outbreaks are linked to the Texas outbreak. But experts say that formally losing measles elimination status would be a symptom of more deeply rooted issues, particularly challenges with vaccination that have been building for many years. “Let’s face it, whether we lose elimination status or not in spring, is our public health system actually doing well?” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who resigned in protest last year. “Measles elimination is a vital sign of our public health system. That public health system is blue in the ICU,” he said. “I don’t need to check its pulse to know [it’s not doing well]. I know the answer.” A record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, according to data from the CDC, marking the fifth year in a row that coverage with the MMR vaccine was been below the federal target of 95%. The CDC says that the increase in vaccine exemptions may be “due to an increase in vaccine hesitancy.” A recent survey of parents conducted by the agency found that most supported vaccine requirements to attend school. But among those seeking an exemption, the most commonly reported reason – cited more than a third of the time – was a philosophical or personal belief objection to vaccination. Difficulty…