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The Danish Prime Minister says she is “annoyed” that Donald Trump has cancelled his state visit to Denmark, after he was told that Greenland is not for sale.

Now, in some all-too-rare good news, Africa looks set to be declared free of polio – after the World Health Organisation announced the continent hasn’t seen a wild case for three years.

Victor Gao, translator for the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and is now the Director of China’s National Association of International Studies, joins the programme from Beijing. 

The Foreign Office says it is “extremely concerned” about reports a consulate employee from Hong Kong has been detained in China.

A man’s appeared in court charged with the murder of a police officer who was killed while investigating a burglary last Thursday.

 The Italian Prime Minister has said he will resign tonight, blaming his rebellious and controversial deputy, Matteo Salvini.

Britain isn’t the only country with the threat of a no-confidence motion bringing down the Government.

Migrants are a big issue in Matteo Salvini’s Italy and could be a decisive factor in the next election – whenever it comes.

Turkey says three civilians have been killed and 12 others injured after one of its military convoys was targeted by airstrikes inside the rebel held Syrian province of Idlib.

In Afghanistan, another bomb attack and yet again scores killed. This time the venue was a wedding in the western suburbs of Kabul.

In Hong Kong, protest organisers say 1.7 million people took part in today’s pro-democracy rally almost as many as the march in June, at the start of the demonstrations.

The death of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been ruled “suicide by hanging” by the New York medical examiner.

It was a tale of two cities in Hong Kong today. On one side of the harbour, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators chanted “Liberate Hong Kong!”

The chief executive of Hong Kong’s airline Cathay Pacific has resigned – after some of its employees took part in anti-government protests – saying the airline had been through ‘challenging weeks’. Hong Kong is braced for another weekend of trouble as China’s paramilitary police force watches from the border – and the former head of…

Now Greenland has one thing to say to Donald Trump: we’re not for sale. Following reports that the US President had shown an interest in buying the territory, almost a quarter of the size of the USA itself, Greenland’s government said they were flattered by the interest, but weren’t on the market.