Venezuela gives U.S. 15 days to slash embassy staff
Venezuela’s official news agency AVN (Agencia Venezolana de Noticias) said the U.S. Embassy has been asked to reduce its personnel to a staff of 17 to match the number of…
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Venezuela gives U.S. 15 days to slash embassy staff
Venezuela’s official news agency AVN (Agencia Venezolana de Noticias) said the U.S. Embassy has been asked to reduce its personnel to a staff of 17 to match the number of…
Suicide attack outside Iranian embassy in Kabul kills 2
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham condemned the attack. “All colleagues at the embassy are safe and sound, and no damage has been done to our country’s embassy as a…
Kabul Explosion Rattles Windows In Diplomatic Quarter
KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – An explosion rattled windows in the diplomatic quarter of the heavily fortified Afghan capital on Thursday morning, sending the city’s embassies onto high alert. “This…
Kabul Explosion Rattles Windows In Diplomatic Quarter
KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – An explosion rattled windows in the diplomatic quarter of the heavily fortified Afghan capital on Thursday morning, sending the city’s embassies onto high alert. “This…
Drones hover over Paris landmarks and U.S. Embassy overnight
The unmanned aerial vehicles were spotted over the Eiffel Tower, the Bastille, Place de la Concorde, Les Invalides and the U.S. Embassy, according to Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the…
Ousted Yemeni President picks up support from Gulf countries
Hadi escaped from the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday after being under house arrest for a month following his resignation under pressure from Houthi rebels. After his escape, he released a…
Ousted Yemeni President picks up support from Gulf countries
The statement from the Gulf Cooperation Council Monday echoed Hadi, with council members stressing that all procedures taken by the Houthi after their coup were invalid. According to two presidential…
Thousands Protest In Argentina Demanding Answers In Prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s Death
Thousands of Argentines marched in the capital Wednesday demanding answers in the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman exactly one month after he was found in his bathroom with a…
7 Things You Need To Know As A Young Entrepreneur
I’m back from a snowy week in Luxembourg thanks to the US Embassy and a program that they have to train young entrepreneurs. I spent the week training young people…
U.S. special forces stay in Yemen
This follows the removal of all remaining U.S. embassy personnel at the embassy in Sanaa after the State Department announced it would suspend its operations in the country amid the…
Rebels In Yemen Seize U.S. Embassy Vehicles After Evacuation
SANAA, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Armed Houthi rebels in the Yemeni capital Sanaa seized U.S. embassy vehicles after the ambassador and diplomats left the country on Wednesday, local members of…
$15 million Assange security is ‘sucking resources in,’ police say
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe says the operation is being reviewed, as there’s “no doubt it’s a drain.” Assange has been living in the embassy since June 2012 to avoid…
U.S. Closing Embassy In Yemen
WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. official in Washington on Tuesday confirmed the American Embassy in Yemen is closing. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did…
U.S. Wants To Open Embassy In Cuba By April
(Reuters) – The United States is pressing Cuba to allow the opening of its embassy in Havana by April, U.S. officials told Reuters, despite the Communist island’s demand that it…
Greek Guerrilla Group Claims Responsibility for Attack on Israeli Embassy
ATHENS — A guerrilla organization known for targeting political and foreign diplomatic sites in Greece has claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Israeli Embassy in December, a Greek…
New allegations of Saudi involvement in 9/11
In the late-’90s, Moussaoui claims, he was tasked by Osama bin Laden to create a digital database cataloguing al Qaeda’s donors. Every day for two or three months, he claims,…
U.S. hits Yemen with drone strike, closes embassy to public amid upheaval
The drone strikethe latest in a long string of them by the Obama administrationis the first since last week’s dramatic events in the capital, Sanaa. – “The U.S. Embassy will…
U.S. Embassy In Yemen To Close To The Public
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The United States is closing its embassy in Yemen to the public until further notice, the embassy said in a statement on Monday amid political…
U.S. Reduces Staff At Yemen Embassy Amid Government Collapse
By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The United States has pulled more staff out of its embassy in Yemen, U.S. officials said on Thursday as…
Pentagon in position to evacuate U.S. Embassy in Yemen
If an evacuation is ordered, the first option would be to have embassy personnel drive to the commercial airport in Sanaa and fly out, the official said. But in the…
Shots fired at U.S. Embassy vehicle in Yemen
The Embassy added that it did not know who opened fire.