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...Three senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed on Monday in an air strike on the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, an attack that Tehran has blamed on Israel....
...The consular building, which was adjacent to the embassy, suffered heavy damage and shattered windows, Akbari said....
...Guy Platten, secretary-general of industry lobby group the International Chamber of Shipping, called the seizure of the MSC Aries a “flagrant breach of international law and an assault on freedom of navigation...
...Tehran was retaliating for a suspected Israeli strike on its consular building in Damascus this month that killed several Iranian commanders. Initial market reaction to Saturday’s attack was muted....
...The former US president posted a $175mn bond yesterday to prevent the New York attorney-general from collecting on a near half-billion dollar fraud judgment against him and his businesses....
...US officials said Washington had no involvement in the strike on the Iranian consular building and was not warned in advance....
...Others wanted Egyptian consular authorities to issue them with new documents and repatriate them....
...Instead, China removed the group of diplomats from the UK on Wednesday, including consul-general Zheng Xiyuan....
...MPs from across the Commons repeatedly demanded the government make a commitment to expel any consular staff found to be involved in the assault....
...In the autumn of 1964, in the midst of a general election campaign that would bring Harold Wilson’s Labour party to power by promising a Britain forged in the “white heat” of the “scientific revolution”,...
...However, the consul-general’s internal narrative is baffling to an external audience....
...The government has refused to acknowledge Abdel Fattah’s hunger strike or to allow a British consular visit....
...The UK also unveiled sanctions against military-linked companies, including one controlled by a son of coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing....
...But it voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution on Wednesday calling for Russia to withdraw its military....
...Observers of Bangladeshi politics see the speeches as a significant moment and an early warning that the country is sailing into choppier political waters ahead of a general election this year....
...Austin said more troops would be deployed to the entry points of the airport in a bid to speed up consular processing....
...“If this is the case, the British consulate-general may not be able to offer you consular assistance.”...
...Kurt Tong, a China expert at the Asia Group who was US consul-general in Hong Kong until 2019, said the move was a “mixture of denunciatory political rhetoric aimed at China” and consular advice to businesses...
...Lucy Moreton, general secretary of the ISU, said officers had been confronted with arriving air passengers saying they were visiting the UK to go shopping, make casual visits to friends — and even, in one...
...But the huge urban villa — which stands opposite the Russian consular compound in Munich — was as austere inside as it was embellished outside....
...She said she wanted to return to Phnom Penh to face charges, but had been refused entry by Cambodian consular authorities....
...Mr Kovrig and Mr Spavor have spent six months in secret prisons under a programme started in 2013 known as “residential surveillance at a designated location” and were only allowed to meet consular officials...
...Before his appointment to Delhi, Sir Philip was the acting chair of the joint intelligence committee in the Cabinet Office and director-general of consular and security in the Foreign Office....
...Relations have chilled further since May when India expelled two Pakistani consular officials that it accused of buying Indian national security documents....
...Mr Trump has issued such a panoply of restrictions in the past three years — capped by this latest dramatic move — that US consular officers can refuse applications almost at will....
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