内容摘要：Sudanese are still hoping that, unlike previous civil wars that lasted years if not decades, this one can be brought to a swift and peaceful conclusion.

Sudanese are still hoping that, unlike previous civil wars that lasted years if not decades, this one can be brought to a swift and peaceful conclusion.

Scandals like the campaign to insert IUDs (Intrauterine devices) to prevent pregnancies in thousands of Inuit women and girls in the 1960s and 70s, haunt the relationship between Greenland and Denmark.It's not known how many of these procedures were carried out without the permission of those involved, but the numbers are considerable. The aim was to reduce the Greenlandic population.

Maliina Abelsen is a former finance minister in Greenland's government, and now a consultant for companies and organisations working on the island. She's also worked for UNICEF Denmark and leading Greenland businesses, like the seafood group, Royal Greenland.Ms Abelsen believes far more needs to be done to address the injustices of the past."I think a lot of people are saying, maybe also the Danish government and state have said, 'Oh well, you know this happened in the past. This is so many years ago. How are we going to be responsible for that? It's time to move on.'

"But you cannot move on if you have not been healed, and if you have not been acknowledged to what happened to you. That is a job that we have to do together with Denmark, not something Greenland can do on its own."And despite her own high profile in civil society and business, Maliina Abelsen says that when it comes to racism - for example jokes about Inuit people - she "can speak for most Greenlanders, that we have all experienced that in our life".

The issues of self-determination and facing the past are intimately intertwined.

Now the intervention of Donald Trump has placed both before the eyes of the world.to delay its decision until he takes office to enable him to seek a "political resolution".

His lawyer filed a legal brief with the court that says Trump "opposes banning TikTok" and "seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office".That came a week after Trump met TikTok's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

On Monday, two Democratic lawmakers, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ro Khanna, also called on Congress and the President Joe Biden to extend the 19 January deadline.During a Supreme Court hearing last week, justices appeared