The US embassy in Moscow has been reduced and the diplomatic service in Minsk completely suspended, the State Department announced on Monday. A notice attributed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he “authorized the voluntary departure … of non-emergency employees and family members” from the embassy in the RussianRead More →
WASHINGTON — Nearly 400 State Department personnel have urged Department leadership to do more to help locally hired Ukrainian embassy staff who were left behind when Russian troops invaded. In an emailed letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Service officers and other staff criticized what they described asRead More →
Secretary of State Antoine BlinkenAntony BlinkenUS moves Ukrainian embassy staff to Poland Putin escalates tension with moves in eastern Ukraine announced on Monday that the State Department would transfer its embassy operations to Poland from Ukraine in connection with a possible invasion by Russia. “For security reasons, State Department personnelRead More →
China is holding on tight to one thing and the last warning of Russia’s invasion could be when China gives in to it. Troop ships were put to sea. Artillery took up positions on the borders. Tanks and trucks flock to the highways. But the final warning of the RussianRead More →
Kyodo News Beijing, China ● Tue 15 February 2022 2022-02-15 11:35 6 22dc95a23fb944820adae5904f27fdcd 2 Europe China, Ukraine, United States, embassy, evacuation Free China said on Monday it was not considering ordering the evacuation of its embassy staff and citizens in Ukraine, despite growing tensions over a possible Russian invasion followingRead More →
Photo credit: MAE Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova meet in Jerusalem on February 13, 2022 The flurry of meetings between senior Ukrainian officials and those from the US, Israel and elsewhere continued on Sunday, with Kyiv asking for more military and financialRead More →
WASHINGTON, February 13. /TASS/. A core team of US embassy staff will remain in Ukraine despite the evacuation of the majority of its staff, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday at a news conference in Honolulu. “Yesterday we ordered the departure of most Americans still at the USRead More →
MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russia will likely advise non-essential staff at its diplomatic missions in Ukraine to leave the country amid actions by Anglo-Saxon colleagues, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference on Thursday after of talks with UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs LizRead More →
Staff of the Dutch embassy in Ukraine who wish to return to the Netherlands will be allowed to do so. But the Netherlands, unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, still sees no reason to evacuate employees, said Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra. The choice of evacuation “is a hugeRead More →
Boris Johnson has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a possible invasion of Ukraine would be “disastrous”, as the UK begins to withdraw staff from its embassy in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. Johnson’s assessment of the “pretty grim” situation comes amid new intelligence that has emerged suggesting that Russia isRead More →
RThe ussia is ordering U.S. Embassy staff who have been in Russia for more than three years to leave by January 31, 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday the move was a response to a similar American policy towards the Russian Embassy in the United States,Read More →
Leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee want the Biden administration to do more to free U.S. embassy staff from detention in Yemen. Democratic. Representative Gregory Meeks from New York and Republican Representative Michael McCaul from Texas wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressing the issueRead More →
The United States has condemned the continued detention of Yemeni staff at its embassy in Sana’a by the Houthi rebels. Dozens of Yemeni citizens and their families have been detained and abused by the Iranian-aligned Houthis for working for the United States on an interim basis since the embassy closedRead More →
DOHA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – November 23, 2021) The rebels of the Houthi movement who rule northern Yemen continue to detain a number of officials at the US embassy in Sana’a, Al Arabiya television reported on Monday, citing reports of sources. According to the broadcaster’s sources, the Houthis haveRead More →
The White House lights up in the colors of the rainbow to celebrate the Supreme Court’s opinion legalizing same-sex marriage in the fifty states on June 26, 2015Photo: Shutterstock Over 60 House Democrats wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding that the Biden administration lift the banRead More →
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends meeting with youth leaders in Bogota, Colombia on October 21, 2021. REUTERS / Luisa Gonzalez / Pool / File Photo Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com Register BOGOTA, Oct.21 (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday metRead More →
Rep. Markwayne MullinMarkwayne Mullin Congress Must Act On Social Determinants Of Health GOP Lawmaker Says He Has Not Threatened U.S. Embassy Staff In Tajikistan The Hill’s Morning Report – Brought to you by AT&T – Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law stand by (Okla.) On Tuesday denied reports that heRead More →
The appeal for the US ambassador to Tajikistan arrived on Monday. Online, said two U.S. officials, Representative Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., With an unusual and urgent request: He needed help transporting a huge amount of cash into the country, saying he was on his way to the country. in neighboring AfghanistanRead More →
New Delhi: India evacuated the Indian ambassador and staff from the Kabul embassy, two days after the Taliban entered the capital and settled down as a new dispensation. The closure of the Indian embassy has been in the works since it became clear that there would not be a smoothRead More →
An American Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the United States Embassy. Rahmat Gul / AP hide caption toggleRead More →
Moscow ready to issue visas to new US embassy staff, senior Russian diplomat noted Thursday, after the Russian Ambassador to Washington denounced the strict visa issuance procedures for Russian employees. Alexander Bikantov, deputy foreign ministry spokesman, said Russia was “open to dialogue” despite what he described as Washington’s “non-constructive approach”.Read More →
The United States said on Friday it had laid off nearly 200 local employees working for its diplomatic missions in Russia before the August 1 deadline set by the Kremlin for their dismissal. The move is the latest in a series of measures taken by both sides that have strainedRead More →
MINSK – Belarus has announced that it is reducing the authorized number of diplomats and other staff at the U.S. Embassy in Minsk and tightening visa procedures for U.S. citizens, in response to American sanctions imposed on this Eastern European country following a radical repression of the opposition. Foreign MinistryRead More →
Burmese activists held candlelight vigils overnight as the death toll from military crackdown on anti-coup protesters and clashes in ethnic border areas continues to rise on Wednesday, prompting states -United to order all non-essential Embassy staff to leave the country. At least four other protesters were reportedly killed by securityRead More →