FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Residents have reported receiving calls from an employee with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office about a jury summons that says they failed to attend and they have to pay a penalty. These calls, deputies say, are spam calls. The person making these random phone calls to citizens would identify himself […]
France’s ambassador to Moscow on Tuesday represented Paris at the inauguration of President Vladimir Putin for a fifth term, a day after the envoy was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry in a move France denounced as intimidation. Ambassador Pierre Levy was present at the ceremony in the Kremlin, a French foreign ministry spokesman told […]
Germany has summoned the acting chargé d’affaires of the Russian embassy in response to a Russian cyberattack on the governing centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year. Chargé d’affaires Alexei Korlyakov had been summoned for around midday, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry announced in Berlin on Friday. “[It is a clear diplomatic signal] […]
(Bloomberg) — The Philippines said it summoned China’s envoy in Manila on Thursday after Chinese vessels fired water cannons at Philippine ships near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea earlier this week. Most Read from Bloomberg “The Philippines protested the harassment, ramming, swarming, shadowing and blocking, dangerous maneuvers, use of water cannons, and […]
The German Foreign Office has summoned Iran’s ambassador following Tehran’s attack on Israel, a spokesman said on Monday afternoon. The conversation is currently taking place at the ministry, he said. Iran had summoned the German ambassador to Tehran on Sunday, the spokesman in Berlin noted. Iran had justified its summons with the “irresponsible positions” of […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Russian ambassador to Poland did not show up Monday for a meeting at the Polish Foreign Ministry where he had been summoned because of a Russian cruise missile that violated Polish airspace on the weekend, the Polish ministry’s spokesman said. Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev was to be given a note […]
The German ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in the wake of a scandal involving a private conversation between German Armed Forces leaders being leaked; the conversation in question regarded the possibility of supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Source: TASS, a pro-Kremlin Russian news agency; European Pravda Details: TASS reported that […]
The German Foreign Office is summoning the Russian ambassador on Monday over the death of Alexei Navalny, a ministry spokeswoman said. The politically motivated proceedings against Navalny and numerous other critics of the Russian government, as well as the inhumane prison conditions, show how brutally the Russian judiciary acts against dissidents and the means used […]
Ukraine’s parliament voted to summon Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), following the report on Feb. 5 that one SBU department was behind the surveillance of the team of the Ukrainian investigative outlet Bihus.info, lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on Feb. 6. News that the Bihus.info team was under surveillance first […]
Iraq recalled its ambassador from Tehran for consultations and summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Baghdad on Tuesday in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians overnight, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said. The Iranian attack was “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, strongly contradicts the principles of […]
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq recalled its ambassador from Tehran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad on Tuesday in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians overnight, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said. The Iranian attack was “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, strongly […]
Austria condemns Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine and brutal attacks on civilian infrastructure, causing the Austrian Foreign Ministry to summon the Russian ambassador 10 times. Source: Ukrinform, citing a statement by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria on Russia’s large-scale missile attack on Ukraine on 2 January. Quote: “Austria has repeatedly […]