Us Diplomats

US Senate passage of Reciprocal Access To Tibet Act was long due, step towards addressing injustice: American senator

Welcoming the Congressional passage of the Reciprocal Access To Tibet Act, a top American Senator on Wednesday said the legislation represented a strong, bipartisan step toward addressing that decades-long injustice.

Mysterious attacks on US diplomats in Cuba, China: Doctors, scientists suspect use of microwave weapons

The US diplomats reported hearing intense high-pitched sounds in their hotel rooms or homes followed by symptoms that included nausea, severe headaches, fatigue, dizziness, sleep problems and hearing loss

US diplomats in China complain of sonic attacks; probes on the issue lead nowhere

US diplomats in US have been facing sound attacks but, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stated that investigations into the matter has led nowhere

US diplomats criticise Barack Obama's Syria policy, urge anti-Assad strikes

A group of US diplomats have used a State Department channel for dissident views to criticise President Barack Obama's Syria policy, a spokesman confirmed Thursday.

UN Security Council to vote on new North Korea sanctions

The UN Security Council will vote on Tuesday on a US-drafted resolution imposing a raft of new sanctions on North Korea following its nuclear test and rocket launch, US diplomats said.

Immunity to Devyani Khobragade disappointing, say US trade unions

The AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, however, applauded the Department of Justice, particularly US Attorney Preet Bharara, for its steadfast pursuit of justice in this case.

US Energy Secretary calls off India visit amid Khobragade row

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will no longer travel to India as his planned trip has become the latest casualty of the Devyani Khobragade row which has snowballed into a full-blown spat.

Khobragade row: No more special treatment of US diplomat at airports

India on Tuesday had taken a slew of retaliatory steps to strip US diplomats and their families of privileges including withdrawing all airport passes and stopping import clearances for the US embassy, strongly denouncing the arrest and strip searching of Khobragade, India's Deputy Consul General in New York.

American al Qaeda militant urges attacks on US diplomats

An American al Qaeda militant has called for more attacks on Western diplomats in the Arab world, praising the killers of the U.S. ambassador to Libya on September 11 last year, a U.S.-based monitoring group said on Sunday

US evacuates diplomats out of Lahore after threat to consulate

The move was not related to the threat of an al-Qaida attack that prompted Washington to close temporarily 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa, US officials said.