Senate passes Republican spending bill, averting government shutdown – as it happened

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• Democrats help advance Republican funding bill to avoid US shutdown

Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen rejected on Friday president Donald Trump's latest remarks about annexing Greenland, saying the Danish autonomous island could not be taken over by another country.

If you look at the Nato treaty, the UN charter or international law, Greenland is not open to annexation," he told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).