A 69-year-old Palestine protester scaled a 650ft crane near the US Embassy and draped the country’s flag before being hauled down after nearly two days. Nick Georges, from Hornhatch, near Guildford, Surrey, took two hours to scale the £1billion skyscraper project in central London. The activist, who is a member of Palestine Action and was arrested … Read more
Second-highest ranked employee at Swiss embassy falls to her death from high-rise building in Iran Embassy’s first secretary, 51, died after falling from a building in northern Tehran She lived on the 18th floor of the residential building where she fell to her death Swiss Embassy had represented the US in Iran since the 1979 … Read more
The State Department is ordering home most remaining staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul due to security concerns after President Joe Biden announced earlier this month a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. All personnel have been instructed, according to a Tuesday report, to depart Afghanistan unless their jobs require them … Read more
Archaeologists in Guatemala believe they have discovered a hidden ’embassy’ in the legendary Mayan city of Tikal. The compound includes a pyramid, burial site and various items indicative of Teotihuacan, a rival city-state hundreds of miles away in Mexico. It was recently discovered thanks to aerial laser scans that could pierce through centuries of dirt … Read more
Myanmar’s ambassador spent the night in his car after staff at the country’s London embassy staged a mini-coup and locked him out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Kyaw Zwar Minn, a vocal opponent of the February coup in Myanmar which saw military leaders seize control, slept in a black Volvo XC60 outside the Mayfair … Read more
Myanmar’s ambassador spent the night in his car after staff at the country’s London embassy staged a mini-coup and locked him out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Kyaw Zwar Minn, a vocal opponent of the February coup in Myanmar which saw military leaders seize control, slept in a black Volvo XC60 outside the Mayfair … Read more
Myanmar military take control of country’s London embassy as ambassador says he has been ‘betrayed’ by colleagues and locked out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn had been an opponent of February’s armed coup Diplomatic sources told Reuters his deputy Chit Win has now taken charge Police officers were scrambled to … Read more
Myanmar military take control of country’s London embassy as ambassador says he has been ‘betrayed’ by colleagues and locked out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn had been an opponent of February’s armed coup Diplomatic sources told Reuters his deputy Chit Win has now taken charge Police officers were scrambled to … Read more
Embassy clerk, 65, who returned from two-week holiday to find ‘a young lady’ had been given her job is awarded £109,000 payout Janice Dinsdale, now 72, was told she was ‘no longer required’ in job as a clerk Ms Dinsale was working at High Commission of India in Aldwych, Central London After returning from a … Read more
Embassy clerk, 65, who returned from two-week holiday to find a ‘young lady’ had been given her job is awarded £109,000 Janice Dinsdale, now 72, was told she was ‘no longer required’ in job as a clerk Ms Dinsale was working at High Commission of India in Aldwych, Central London After returning from a two-week … Read more