A judge at Lebanon’s military court on Tuesday charged the gunman who opened fire at the US embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group, security and judicial officials said. Lebanese soldiers shot and arrested the gunman in early June, later identified as Kaiss Farraj from Syria, after a shootout that […]
An attacker with a crossbow has wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia’s interior ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the attacker. Both Serbian and Israeli officials said that initial indications are that it was a terror-motivated attack. Interior minister Ivica Dacic said in a statement that the […]
BELGRADE (Reuters) -An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot and killed on Saturday in what Interior Minister Ivica Dacic called a terrorist attack against Serbia. The policeman is in a life-threatening condition and is undergoing surgery, Serbian news agency Tanjug quoted Dacic as saying. […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters, a spokesperson for China’s embassy in Japan said on Friday. Japan’s foreign ministry said this week that it was seriously concerned over repeated actions that obstruct freedom of navigation and increase […]
A Syrian gunman has opened fire on the US embassy north of Beirut, the Lebanese army has said. Soldiers shot and wounded the assailant, identified only as a Syrian national, according to a statement posted online. The gunman has since been taken to hospital. The US embassy said the attack, which occurred on Wednesday morning […]
The Lebanese army has said a gunman attempted to attack the US embassy near Beirut. The military said that soldiers shot and injured an assailant, who they only described as a Syrian national. The gunman was taken to hospital. Local media reported that there was a gunfight for almost half an hour near the US […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital on Monday after allegedly attacking the entrance of the Israeli Embassy with a Molotov cocktail, causing a small fire but no casualties, local media and police reported. A 34-year-old man was apprehended by antiterrorism officers from the Romanian Intelligence Service before police arrived […]
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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The UK’s ambassador to Mexico has been sacked after he was caught on camera aiming an assault rifle at an embassy employee on an official trip through drug cartel heartlands. Jon Benjamin, 61, […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is ruling Thursday on an urgent request by Mexico to order Ecuador to protect Mexican diplomatic property in the aftermath of the storming of the embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president. The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted asylum to former […]
MANILA (Reuters) – A senior Philippine navy official on Wednesday accused the Chinese embassy in Manila of recording a phone call without his consent and denied forging a deal with Beijing to deescalate tensions in the South China Sea. Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos told a senate hearing he received a call from China’s military attache […]
(Bloomberg) — President Xi Jinping vowed to “never forget” NATO’s deadly bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, hours before arriving in Serbia on a swing through Europe aimed at dividing Brussels’ support for the US. Most Read from Bloomberg “Twenty-five years ago today, NATO flagrantly bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese […]
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during Nato’s air war over Kosovo. US jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy compound in the Serbian capital on May 7 1999, setting it ablaze […]