India’s External Affairs Ministry is examining a letter from the Afghan Embassy that says it plans to cease all operations in the Indian capital by Saturday, an official said Friday. India has not recognized the Taliban government which seized power in Afghanistan
Lebanese police said Thursday that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut last week allegedly did so because of a personal grudge against the guards at the compound. The police said they had arrested the suspected
Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians scuffled with riot police on Thursday outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in northern Beirut during a protest against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the enclave’s separatist Armenian authorities. Protesters waved flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and
Lebanon’s security agencies have launched an investigation into a late night shooting outside the U.S. embassy in Lebanon that caused no injuries, officials said Thursday. No one claimed responsibility for the Wednesday night small arms fire in the vicinity of the entrance
Tower Hamlets, a local government council in London, has blocked China from continuing a project that would have created the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain. Bejing’s proposed embassy near the Tower of London would have been 18% larger than the city’s new U.S. embassy.
A strongly-worded statement issued by the Chinese embassy in Russia to Russian officials marked a strident difference from the normally cordial relations between Moscow and Beijing. The Chinese embassy based in Moscow criticised the “brutal and excessive law enforcement by Russia” in
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced late Wednesday that the State Department had ordered a temporary departure of non-emergency personnel and eligible family members from Niger from the U.S. embassy in Niamey. “The U.S. is committed to our relationship with the people
Iraq has severed diplomatic ties with Sweden Thursday after a planned anti-Quran demonstration unfolded in Stockholm, during which an individual stepped on and kicked the Islamic holy book and Iraqi flag. The move came after images emerged of protesters storming the Swedish
Iraq is threatening to sever diplomatic ties with Sweden if a planned burning of the Quran goes ahead in Stockholm on Thursday. The warning comes as images have emerged of protesters storming the Swedish embassy in Baghdad for the second time in
Switzerland’s main intelligence agency says Russia continues to have dozens of spies disguised as diplomats at its embassy in Bern and its mission to the United Nations in Geneva, making the Alpine nation a hotspot for Russian espionage activity in Europe. The