Denmark may allow US troops on its soil, pact in the works

HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark says it will begin negotiations on a new defense cooperation agreement with the United States that may include allowing American troops and military equipment  to be stationed on Danish soil — in reversal of a decades-old policy. But Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed to reporters Thursday that the move is not due to current tensions between Russia and Ukraine. She said talks on intensifying military cooperation between Copenhagen and Washington have been in the works for a long time. The potential new Danish-American defense cooperation deal “is a breakthrough after many decades of non-stationing policy (of foreign troops) on Danish soil,” she told Danish media.