cairo - Egyptian security forces have thwarted a plan by an al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.Mohamed Ibrahim said the men, who he accused of having links to militants in the Middle East and ...

LONDON: Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political unrest, the Foreign Office said. Tensions have risen in Libya since ex-rebels besieged two ministries at the end of last month in a row over a law that would ban ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

ISLAMABAD - A United States Embassy spokesman has clarified a news item published in this paper on Thursday regarding a “secret meeting” between visiting US Congressional delegation and former President Pervez Musharraf, terming it as false.“No such meeting took place,” the ...

TRIPOLIA car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz branded the act a ...

A car bomb blasted the embassy of France in Tripoli early Tuesday, injuring two French guards and causing serious damage to the building, embassy and Libyan sources said.An AFP correspondent at the site said the wall surrounding the property was destroyed and the embassy building extensively ...

ANKARA   - Turkish police have uncovered and foiled an alleged plot by Al-Qaeda to bomb the US embassy in Ankara, as well as a synagogue and other targets in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday. As a result of a February raid in Istanbul and the northeastern city of Corlu, police ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea on Friday warned foreign embassies in Pyongyang that it was unable to guarantee their safety after April 10 and they should consider evacuating their missions amid soaring nuclear tensions.European countries with embassies in Pyongyang, such as Britain and Russia, reported ...

ISLAMABAD - The Embassy of Brazil has reopened the admissions for its free Portuguese language course, the diplomatic mission announced on Wednesday. The admissions are open for two weeks from December 10 to December 24, a statement said. The classes will take place at the embassy and are free of ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Protesters threw stones at the Bangladeshi embassy in Sri Lanka on Thursday as saffron-robed monks demonstrated against mob attacks on Buddhist temples in Bangladesh.A crowd of about 500 monks and supporters marched to the Bangladesh High Commission (embassy) and handed over a ...

ISLAMABAD - American rock band Blood Moon Therapy launched its two-week tour of Pakistan with a concert in Islamabad Saturday. Blood Moon Therapy is a New York-based rock band, recently formed by frontman Michael Lombardi, who starred in hit TV show Rescue Me and was the lead singer for the group. ...

Zahid Hussain Bokhari, counsel for Pakistan’s former ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani, on Monday said that he has not been able to acquire visa for London and now he cannot attend the memo proceedings there.Talking to media, Bukhari said that he would not be able to reach London at the time ...

Pakistan embassy in the US Saturday reacted strongly to the resolution on Balochistan in US Congress saying that such resolution on was ‘provocative’.The reaction, posted on the embassy website, stated that "the Pakistan envoy in Washington has taken serious notice of the resolution ...

ISLAMABAD  - The US Embassy has said Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan remains closed to Nato despite comments by a senior Pakistani official that seemed to indicate the coalition would be allowed to transport some food items. Pakistan closed the crossings to Nato at the end of November ...

The US has urged its embassy employees and other US nationals staying in Pakistan not to purchase/consume Efroze Pharma products until WHO advises the manufacturer has addressed all the health concerns.All the mission employees and other Americans in Pakistan have been advised that any person ...

KABUL  - Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe, the foreign ministry in Kabul said on Sunday.  The embassy will provide illegal Afghans with travel documents, mainly so they can return ...

While rejecting media reports, the US Embassy in Pakistan has said that neither Pakistan nor the US has cancelled F-16 program and the F-16s purchased by Pakistan from the US is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan in Late January.In a statement, the Embassy said “some media have reported a ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities blocked a website on Wednesday hours after it was launched by the US State Department to be a "virtual embassy" reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic. "In accordance with the cybercrime law, access to this website is not possible," read a notice to ...

ISLAMABAD - The local authorities on Friday unsealed the US Embassys warehouse building in Sector I-9 Industrial Area following the intervention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reliable sources informed TheNation. The facility is unsealed following the submission of building plan and an ...

An American citizen was killed and another was wounded on the grounds of an annex to the United States Embassy here in Kabul by an Afghan employee, an embassy spokesman said on Monday. The gunman was killed and the motivation for the attack is under investigation, said Gavin Sundwall, the embassy ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sought to blow up the embassy of an Arab country in Tunisia, a soldier who claimed to have been given the task said on Monday after handing himself over to Tunisian authorities. "This bomb plot was designed by Gaddafi. He was seeking to derail the ...

US Embassy has termed some Pakistani media outlets have claimed that NATO helicopters violated Pakistan's airspace over Kurram Agency on Saturday, July 23 as false. According to a statement issued by the Embassy, a review of flight operations in Afghanistans Regional CommandEast confirmed that no ...

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria's ties with the US and France nosedived on Tuesday, four months into a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, after pro-regime crowds attacked the embassies of the two Western states. A regime-backed "national dialogue" on reforms, meanwhile, wrapped up a three-day meeting ...

ISLAMABAD - Leaders of important political parties, for expediency or the other reasons known to them, refused to condemn or offer any comment on a celebration of the US Embassys hosting of Pakistans first ever lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) 'Pride Celebration, however, religious ...

SYED DANISH HUSSAIN ISLAMABAD Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan has requested the Capital Development Authority to issue a 'temporary no objection certificate (NOC) for the placement of anti-bomb blockades around the embassy building located in the residential area of the Capital, The Nation ...

Television actor Jamil Fakhris son has been killed in United States. Fakhri confirmed the news saying that the Pakistan Embassy did not cooperate to recover his son, who had been missing since 2009 from the United States. About 22 months ago Fakhri asked the Pakistan Embassy in US to help him ...

Gen. David Petraeus, NATO International Security Assistance Force commander made no threat of launching ground operations in Pakistan. US embassy spokesman in a statement refuted US press reports alleging that Gen. David Petraeus, NATO International Security Assistance Force commander, "issued a ...

ISLAMABAD - In response to TheNations story regarding the evil role of US spies and Marines in Pakistan, titled US aid agencies importing 'auditors in Pakistan published on September 24, 2010, US Embassy offers a naive clarification that reflects the sheer incompetence of its media department and ...

HANOI (AFP) - Economic ties between the United States and Southeast Asia are a high priority, an embassy spokesman said Saturday despite the absence of US officials from a key regional trade meeting. Ministers from China, Japan, India and other leading trade partners of the 10-member Association of ...

ISLAMABAD The Embassy of Afghanistan claimed the ownership of more than twenty five thousand bottles of wine, which was recovered from the area of Shalimar Police Station. The Embassy through its lawyer submitted an application in a local court here on Wednesday for obtaining the said wine. It is ...