Morning bird: According to Denmark, the takeover of Greenland would mean the end of NATO. The temperature in Šumava dropped to -30 degrees.
US take-over of Greenland would signal NATO's collapse, warns Danish Prime Minister
On Monday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen claimed that an acquisition of Greenland by the United States would mean the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comment was in response to repeated calls from US President Donald Trump for the strategic Arctic island, rich in mineral resources, to fall under US control following a weekend military operation in Venezuela.
The night operation of American forces in Caracas, aimed at capturing leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife early on Saturday morning, shocked the world and raised concerns in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of the Danish kingdom, and therefore part of NATO, reported by the agency AP.
The mercury dropped to -30 degrees
The Czech Republic experienced unusually strong frosts, which will last until Friday, when it will warm up and temperatures will jump above freezing point. In most regions, temperatures dropped to a range of -5 to -15 degrees Celsius, the temperature record was measured at Perla station in the Šumava Kvilda, where minus 30.6 degrees was recorded. Meteorologists issued a warning for temperatures dropping below -12 degrees, which applies to the entire country except Prague, Central Bohemia and Moravian-Silesian regions, reported by ČTK.
Tuna auctioned in Japan for more than 3 million dollars
A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna was sold for a record 510 million yen (3.2 million dollars/approximately 65 million crowns) at the first auction of the year 2026 at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo. The highest bid for this valuable tuna at Monday's predawn auction was made by Kiyomura Corp.
The record-breaking expensive fish was caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan, a region that is widely known as the producer of the highest quality tuna in the country. Hundreds of tunas are sold at the morning auction daily, but prices are significantly higher than usual, especially at the festive New Year's auction. Due to the popularity of the fish for sushi and sashimi, bluefin tuna was previously an endangered species, but thanks to conservation efforts, its population is recovering, according to the AP agency.
