UPDATE: All US government facilities will remain closed on Wednesday for a second day. They will also be closed Thursday, September 24, 2009 for Heritage Day, a South African National holiday. Sharon...
Members of Toronto's Sri Lankan community are trying to raise awareness of what they call genocide taking place in their home country. Hundreds of Tamils gathered outside the Sri Lankan consulate at Yonge and St....
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Unknown gunmen kidnapped an Iranian diplomat Hashmatullah Atharzadeh after killing his guard in the restive Peshawar early today. Mr Atharzadeh was traveling towards his office from his home when his vehicle was intercepted by some unknown armed men who took him...
The number of Indians aspiring to go and work in USA is spiralling and in absence of valid Visa papers many of them use fraudulent travel documents. Despite the American Embassy strict vigil to...
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" UPDATES: On Monday 10 November 2008, "President Chavez says changing the building that housed Venezuela's consulate in Houston was an error attributed to a lack of coordination. Consul Antonio Padrino is...
Only a day after Afghanistan's ambassador-designate to Pakistan was kidnapped by gunmen from Peshawar, another Afghan diplomat on Tuesday approached the Peshawar police, saying that he had escaped a kidnapping attempt. The Afghan diplomat requested the police to provide him...
There is this emerging story from Pakistan. In a clear case of compromise in the law & order in the north western province of Pakistan today Afghanistan ambassdor to Pakistan was abducted while he was travelling from his consulate to his home in Peshwar. "Afghanistan's...
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Restive Northwestern Pakistan is always in news for violence and killing of innocent citizens. But now even diplomats have become targets. Ms. Lynne Tracey a diplomat working with US Consulate in Peshwar was fired on but she survived the gun attack. She was...
In a recent diplomatic trip to the USA, it seems that six visiting members of the German Parliament weren't treated as well as they would have liked.Der Spiegel has received a confidential letter from the German...
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Early on Monday, a Molotov cocktail bomb was thrown to the American Consulate in Okinawa, Japan. . On Saturday, there were protests against the military presence of American troops. 25,000 US troops are based in Okinawa. This is the second attack on an American Consular...
American Consulate in Istanbul have been attacked by a group of armed militant and 3 policemen were killed. " Three policemen and three gunmen have been killed in an armed attack near the US consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, its governor has said. The identity...
Experiencing declining birth rates? You know who to call...Needless to say, it's probably just the charm of the Filipino above anything else :)" Filipinos appear to be populating the design and fashion in the city of Milan, with the Philippine consulate general there...
UPDATE: Greg Palast thinks the Bush meeting in New Orleans is some Big Secret!Can't blame it ALL on Bush, after all he didn't start it."by David Hammer, The Times-Picayune, Monday April 21, 2008, 10:36 AMPresident...
The US Embassy in Hanoi and the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City have announced a new online appointment system for people applying for nonimmigrant visas, including students, business people and tourists."Applications for appointments are available at...
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police are firing tear gas at Bosnian Serb rioters to prevent them from storming the U.S. consulate after protests against Kosovo's independence.The Associated Press is...