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diplomat stories: 35 news summaries

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Aung San Suu Kyi Meets US, Other Diplomats

Surprise permission may signal shift in Burmese junta

Oct 9, 09 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Burma's military rulers allowed Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with diplomats from the US, Britain and Australia today, an unexpected development that may reflect shifts in Western approaches to the regime. The hourlong meeting took place at a government guest house, after which she was returned to the home... More »

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house arrest • diplomat • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • junta

Jamaican Busted in Murder of UK Diplomat

Cops suspect slaying motivated by gay hatred

Oct 5, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 23-year-old Jamaican man has been arrested in the suspected gay-hate murder of a British diplomat. Consul John Terry, 62, was found last month bludgeoned and strangled in his long-time Montego Bay home with a handwritten note on his body containing a derogatory term for gays, reports the Telegraph. Police... More »

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homophobia • crime • murder • hate crime • Jamaica • diplomat • gay • anti-gay slur • John Terry

US, Iran May Meet One-on-One on Nukes

Meeting tomorrow could be most direct engagement since the revolution

Sep 30, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - US diplomats will try to meet one-on-one with their Iranian counterparts during tomorrow’s multi-nation negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program. It would be the most significant direct engagement between the two countries since the Iranian revolution. An anonymous official tells the Washington Post that the one-on-one talks would "... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Tehran • nuclear weapons • Washington • diplomat • Geneva

'Homophobic Attack' Kills Diplomat in Jamaica

'This is what will happen to all Gays,' warns note with body

Sep 11, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British diplomat was found severely beaten and strangled in his Jamaica home in what police believe was a homophobic attack, reports the Telegraph. A note was found with John Terry's body referring to the 65-year-old married father as gay, using a Jamaican slur. “This is what will happen... More »

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crime • murder • Jamaica • diplomat • Montego Bay • gay • anti-gay slur • naked • John Terry

US Rep Headed to North Korea
for Nuke Talks

Bilateral negotiations would be first directly between nations

Aug 24, 09 10:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US diplomat in charge of North Korea policy will visit Pyongyang next month for the first bilateral nuclear negotiations between the countries, South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo reports today. Amid signs from reclusive Kim Jong Il of a thaw in relations, Stephen Bosworth will lead a delegation that will... More »

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China • North Korea • Japan • nuclear weapons • diplomat • Kim Jong Il • six-party agreement • Obama administration • Stephen Bosworth

Nanny: Diplomat Made Me a Slave

Sexually assaulted and beaten, she reveals horrors facing UK's migrant workers

Aug 9, 09 2:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - A migrant worker in Britain took what looked like a plush job as a diplomat’s nanny—only to be treated as a sex slave with little recourse to the law, the Independent reports, uncovering a predicament faced by other workers. “I was trapped. I was paid nothing, never... More »

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immigration • London • migrant workers • diplomat • immigrant • migrant labor • Britain • nanny • workers' rights

(Newser) - An internal State Department assessment has deemed the recently completed US embassy in Baghdad grievously overstaffed, McClatchy Newspapers report. “There is a clear consensus from the top to the bottom of the embassy,” State’s inspector general writes. “The time has come for a significant rightsizing.”... More »

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Bush administration • Baghdad • State Department • US embassy in Baghdad • diplomat • Iraq war • report • rightsizing • overstaffed

 Brit Envoy 
 Quits Russia 
 After Hooker Video 

Officials accuse Russia of set up

Jul 9, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A senior British diplomat was forced to resign his post in Russia after a video of him canoodling with two prostitutes was posted on the Internet, reports the Daily Mail. British officials were livid about the scandal, but also angrily accused Russian officials of a sting. The 4-minute video, called... More »

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Russia • video • diplomat • Britain • sting operations • prostitute • undercover video • hooker • Ural

US Sending Ambassador to Syria After 4-Year Absence

Obama aims to boost US presence after 4-year absence

Jun 24, 09 2:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - An American ambassador will soon be on the road to Damascus for the first time since early 2005, the Washington Post reports. The Obama administration plans to send an envoy to Syria as part of efforts to reengage with the influential Arab country. The move, which follows recent high-level diplomatic... More »

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Syria • diplomacy • diplomat • ambassador

(Newser) - The UK will expel two Iranian diplomats, in retaliation for Tehran’s own banishment of two British diplomats yesterday, the BBC reports. Gordon Brown said that he was “disappointed that Iran has placed us in this position.” He defended the UK diplomats, saying the accusation that they were... More »

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Iran • Gordon Brown • diplomat • Britain • Iranian election

Junta Again Boots Media, Diplomats From Suu Kyi Trial

After 1-day reprieve, observers ejected

May 21, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Burmese military regime abruptly reversed a decision yesterday to allow diplomats to visit Aung San Suu Kyi, and once again ejected journalists from the democracy leader's trial. A British envoy allowed into the courtroom yesterday told CNN that Suu Kyi was in good spirits and "extremely in charge... More »

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trial • diplomat • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • military junta • John Yettaw

 'Civilian Surge' Part 
 of New Afghan Plan 

Hundreds of diplomats may be sent along with troops

Mar 18, 09 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s new Afghanistan policy may include stationing more diplomats and civilians there, officials tell the Washington Post. Obama’s national security advisers are expected to present a plan next week that would send hundreds of government officials from departments like Agriculture and Justice, along with temps yet to... More »

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War on Terror • Pakistan • State Department • diplomat • Peter Galbraith • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Francis Ricciardone Jr.

Crisis Hits New Zimbabwean Government

Mugabe has incoming minister charged
with treason

Feb 14, 09 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Just 3 days old, Zimbabwe’s unity government is already in crisis, the Times of London reports. Robert Mugabe’s agents arrested a top deputy to new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and charged him with treason, unleashing fierce protests and more Western skepticism about the government’s prospects. Hours earlier,... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • diplomat

N. Korea Talks Stumble Over Rules for Probing Nukes

Pyongyang balks at demands over verification

Dec 10, 08 2:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Talks to curb North Korea’s nuclear-weapons activities have stalled over rules for investigating its programs, Reuters reports. Five other countries have been negotiating with Pyongyang over verifying such activities after North Korea agreed to partially shut down a nuclear complex. “It’s been a very difficult day, indeed... More »

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North Korea • nuclear program • diplomat • nuclear inspections • six party talks • nuclear disarmament

Diplomats See Risk in Handing Posts to Obama Pals

Friends, big donors often get cushy ambassadorships, to chagrin of lifers

Nov 14, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Could Barack Obama make Oprah Winfrey an ambassador? It’s an all-too-plausible scenario, the Chicago Tribune reports, assuming Winfrey was willing to leave her TV career. Presidents typically give out roughly a third of the 200 ambassadorships to friends and political allies, and, in a first, the American Academy of... More »

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diplomacy • State Department • Oprah Winfrey • diplomat • ambassador • political appointee • President Obama

Brits Want Diplomats' Kids Out of Volatile Pakistan

Spouses offered return to UK, too, after hotel bombing

Oct 1, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Children of British diplomats stationed in Pakistan are returning home amid security concerns following the Marriott Hotel terrorist bombing in Islamabad last month. Britain will also allow spouses and other dependents to join the 60 kids as instability grows in the volatile nation, the Daily Telegraph reports. The departures are... More »

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Pakistan • Islamabad • bombing • diplomat • Britain

US Slaps Sanctions on Chavez Aides

3 charged with backing FARC drug runners, as tensions mount

Sep 13, 08 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Escalating the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, the US has frozen the assets of three members of Hugo Chavez's inner circle it accuses of having links with drug-running Colombian rebels, the Wall Street Journal reports. The sanctions follow the expulsion by Venezuela and Bolivia of their US ambassadors—a move the... More »

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Venezuela • cocaine • Bolivia • diplomat • Evo Morales • FARC • Hugo Chávez • embassy staff • Colombian rebels

analysis

Obama to Take Diplomatic
Ace to Israel

Choice signals Democrat would take active role in Mideast

Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time. The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Fox News • George HW Bush • diplomat • Arab Israeli conflict • Dennis Ross

Iran Considering Nuclear Talks: Foreign Minister

New incentives could bring Tehran to table, enrichment freeze

Jul 2, 08 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran’s foreign minister turned heads yesterday with optimistic talk about nuclear negotiations with the international community, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tehran is “carefully examining” an offer of economic incentives, Manouchehr Mottaki said, and won’t rule out halting enrichment work during negotiations. “We see the potential... More »

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Iran • nuclear • negotiation • diplomat • nuclear enrichment • nuclear disarmament • Manouchehr Mottaki

Updated

Zimbabwe Detains, then Frees Diplomats

Police held US, UK embassy staff for 6 hours,  beat driver

Jun 5, 08 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zimbabwe has freed 12 US and UK diplomats detained earlier today while attempting to investigate political violence, MSNBC reports. The US demanded Zimbabwe “explain its actions,” after police tried to run a car full of diplomats off the road, eventually slashing its tires and beating the driver. “... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • violence • diplomat • Zimbabwe elections • John McGee

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