Pakistan, July 8 -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted that the United States should be in control of Greenland rather than NATO ally Denmark, repeating an assertion that has raised deep tensions in Europe even as the trans-Atlantic military alliance was announcing billions in arms deals in an attempt to appease the mercurial US leader.

Trump said that the semiautonomous island is "an important part" for the United States, as he repeated the false claim that it's surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships and said he won't let Greenland be threatened by those countries.

"That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark," Trump told reporters during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the president...