Maybe I will, maybe I won't: Trump U-turns on taking Greenland by force

Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. After initially reinforcing claims to annex Greenland, he ruled this out and later said he would scrap additional tariffs announced on Europe. Confusion reigns, not least of all from Trump himself, who referred to Greenland several times as Iceland in that speech. Le Figaro's headline reads: "Trump pulls back from military action, but not from taking Greenland." There is exasperation from Libero, the Italian daily, which calls Trump's about-face "radical and sudden." The farce is over, the paper says, lamenting "so much hysteria for nothing." There's exasperation also from Danish paper Borsen, saying now Trump wants to negotiate over Greenland, but Denmark has rejected this. The British Daily Mirror calls Trump's speech a "delusional rant" delivered to an audience of "aghast world leaders". "Daddy Fool", the paper calls Trump. L'Humanité, the French Communist paper, sums it up in two words: Crazy ally.

There are also some great headlines from the US press. Politico says "Trump's Greenland gambit has broken brains across Washington." The news site explains that his push for the island has irrevocably changed the way foreign policy is done in Washington. As for Europe, it's "clearer than ever" that even allies are not safe from Trump's "machinations". Zeeshan Aleem, a writer for American cable news network MS Now, calls Trump's comments "head spinning". He says the US leader is embracing the madman theory hardball tactics – a foreign policy idea that says unpredictability and willingness to use or threaten force helps a leader intimidate his foes and achieve his goals. He adds: Trump might think he's slick, but he's steering the US into dangerous territory. Meanwhile, after Venezuela, Trump's unpredictability could also impact Cuba. The Wall Street Journal reports in an exclusive that the Trump administration is seeking to end the Communist regime in Cuba by the end of this year.

Libération chooses not to focus on Trump and Davos on its front page this Thursday. It looks at the growing trend in France of people having romantic or sexual relationships with an artificial intelligence system. Around 8 percent of French people have already had an erotic conversation with an AI bot and among men under 35, nearly one in five have done so. Libé warns that what seems strange or bizarre today could become commonplace in a few years' time. After all, if young people use AI for their work and almost every other aspect of their lives, why not their romantic lives too? However, it warns of the adverse effects of such virtual relationships: sex addiction, social isolation and sentimental dependency.

Finally, Jamaica's bobsleigh team have qualified for three events at the upcoming Winter Olympics, after qualifying for a few events in 2014 and 2022. Their latest feat always reminds us of the film "Cool Runnings", which was based on the real-life story of the first Jamaican qualification for bobsleigh in Calgary in 1988. This year's team is no longer a scrappy fish-out-of-water team of amateurs. Jamaica won gold last year for the first time in the North American Cup in Whistler. They've never done better than fourteenth place at the Olympics, but maybe this year is their time to shine!

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