The Danes brought blood supplies, explosives and live ammunition to Greenland as part of contingency plans in case President Trump acted on his threats to seize the island.

COPENHAGEN: Voters in Denmark will decide who runs the Scandinavian country for the next four years in a general election next week, a vote that follows a standoff with US President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom's semiautonomous territory of Greenland.

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, March 20 (Reuters) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats are headed for their weakest result in more than a century in next week's parliamentary election,

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.