Denmark will hold a national election on Tuesday as it grapples with U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to seize Greenland, a semi-autonomous Arctic island of 57,000 people that has been ‌under Danish rule for centuries.

Voters in Denmark will decide who runs the Scandinavian country for the next four years in a general election next week.

NUUK/COPENHAGEN, March 20 (Reuters) - Greenlandic candidates competing for two seats in Denmark's election next week hope to leverage the unprecedented attention brought to their island by U.S. President Donald Trump to wrangle concessions from its former colonial power.

Danish military importing blood bags and rigging runways with explosives amid Trump threats - Trump had threatened to seize the country amid fears the U.S. could carry out a military takeover

She has been hailed as Denmark’s “Iron Lady” for standing up to Donald Trump during the Greenland crisis. But Mette Frederiksen has always given short shrift to bullies, her

By Soren Jeppesen COPENHAGEN, March 17 (Reuters) - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has staked her leadership on defying U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland. Convincing voters at home to give her a third term is proving harder.

President Donald Trump‘s desire to buy Greenland sounded like a geopolitical punchline, at first. After all, Denmark still oversees the island’s foreign affairs and defense. Then Trump’s comments became a hard-line policy,