The European Union wants to be more present in Greenland. While at the White House, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been insisting for months on annexing the Arctic island, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has traveled to Von der Leyen to announce a new strategy towards the island that includes 200 million euros more in investments and also a strengthening of political ties with the Danish autonomous territory, whose future, she has insisted, concerns only Greenland and Denmark “and no one else.”

It seemed impossible, and many still have doubts, that an idea as simple as peace would be part of the upcoming legislative elections in Russia on September 20. But supporters of ending the war in Ukraine will have their chance, even if only to express it secretly at the polls and in the end the more than predictable result does not change. No one doubts that the Kremlin party, United Russia, will win comfortably again, despite its popularity crisis.

At least 20 people are missing due to a major flash flood in the Grand Canyon that forced the evacuation of dozens of people and swept large rocks, metal structures, and other debris into the Colorado River that runs through it, according to the National Park Service.

A fragment of a SpaceX rocket that had been floating in space since last year crashed into the Moon on Wednesday, adding to the list of meteoroids, spacecraft, and other space debris that have been bombarding the lunar surface for a very long time, astronomers said.