President Trump has put a brake to his state visit to Denmark at the beginning of next month. He announced on Twitter that he had come to his decision, because Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen said he was not interested in selling Greenland to the US.

Mike Pence, the current vice president of the United States, will also be the running mate of Donald Trump in the 2020 elections. If Trump wins the elections again, Pence will be his first replacement again.

The Israeli government has stopped a planned visit from two US Congressmen. This is confirmed by the Israeli State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, after rumors have been made that Israel wanted to block the visit.

The US Department of Justice has taken measures in prison where the child abuse suspect Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell last weekend. The prison director is temporarily replaced and two prison guards are suspended for as long as the billionaire’s death investigation is ongoing.

The US government comes Wednesday with rules that prohibit the purchase of Huawei products by US government agencies. This is reported by Bloomberg news agency based on senior government officials.

The Texan police have apologized after a major uproar about a photo of an arrest. The photo shows a black man, tied up with a rope by two white police officers on horseback.

The British government of Boris Johnson yesterday urged the leaders of the European Union to renegotiate the Brexit agreement because “the political reality has changed” since the European elections.

Former Dutch minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem will not compete for the chair the new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He received too little support from the 28 European finance ministers, after which he retired as candidate-chairman.

US President Trump has announced the departure of the highest US security chief on Twitter. Dan Coats (76) will resign from his position next month. Trump thanked the intelligence head for his services rendered and immediately announced his intended successor; Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe.

A trade deal between the United States and China may take a while. President Donald Trump even takes into account that the Chinese only want to sign after the US presidential election in 2020, because Beijing would prefer to make a deal with a Democrat.