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British Ambassador in Yemen Narrowly Escapes Bomb Attack

 

The British ambassador in Yemen escaped a homicide bomb attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armored car at a poor neighborhood of San’a, officials said.

Police and forensic officers gather evidence from the site of a suicide bomb blast in Sanaa April 26, 2010. An explosion near [...]

UK calls in Israeli ambassador as Dubai killing row escalates

Britain last night fired the first shot in a potentially explosive diplomatic row with Israel by calling in the country’s ambassador to explain the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who targeted a Hamas official in Dubai.

The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office to “share information” about the assassins’ use [...]

UK calls in Israeli ambassador as Dubai killing row escalates

Britain last night fired the first shot in a potentially explosive diplomatic row with Israel by calling in the country’s ambassador to explain the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who targeted a Hamas official in Dubai.

The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office to “share information” about the assassins’ use [...]

Iran brings formal charges against UK embassy official

A British embassy employee is to stand trial in Tehran for "acting against national security" — a dramatic escalation in Iran’s campaign to blame Britain for protests against disputed election results.
The man, a 44-year-old Iranian who is the British embassy’s chief political analyst, was arrested on Saturday and has been formally charged at Tehran’s Evin [...]

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