Police stormed the Mexican embassy in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito on Friday to seize the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas. Mr Glas was taking refuge in the embassy. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declared the act “a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Mexico”. He added that as a […]
Security forces in Ecuador forced their way into the Mexican embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral ties. Mexico is breaking off diplomatic relations with Ecuador with immediate effect and will bring a case before the International Court of Justice, Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena said on […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday evening the country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito. The announcement came after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, detaining former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was seeking […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia on Thursday ordered Ethiopia’s ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours, and the closing of Ethiopia’s consulates in the breakaway region of Somaliland and the semiautonomous region of Puntland. Diplomats and personnel stationed at the consulates must vacate Somalia within a week, according to a Cabinet resolution. Somalia’s Foreign […]
A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting. Damian Sobol (35) was among seven people who […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president on Thursday denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting. A 35-year-old […]
A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting. Damian Sobol, 35, was among seven people who […]
After a woman was released from a Miami-Dade County jail over driving with a fake diplomatic tag, Sunny Isles Beach cops said they arrested her driver on Wednesday for the same offense — this time drawing their guns. Andres Lopez-Escobar, 22, was driving a 2022 Mercedes-Benz Maybach — a car that sells for nearly $200,000 […]
In a Sunday (25 February) speech at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis called for conditions to be created for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. Source: Vatican News Details: Speaking to Romans and pilgrims who gathered for the Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday, Pope […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the heads of foreign missions and international organisations accredited in Ukraine on 22 February and briefed them on Kyiv’s foreign policy plans for 2024. Source: Ukraine’s President’s Office, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy thanked foreign diplomats for staying in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion and stressed the […]
CAIRO (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia has told the U.S. its position stands that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem, and Israeli “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. On Tuesday, White […]
WASHINGTON — A man who worked for the State Department as a diplomatic security officer was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in Washington in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Kevin Alstrup faces the same four misdemeanor charges that have typically been given to non-violent Jan. 6 participants who entered […]