Pro-Palestine protester, 69, scales 650ft crane near US Embassy and unfurls Palestinian flag

A 69-year-old Palestine protester scaled a 650ft crane near the US Embassy and draped the country’s flag before being hauled down after nearly two days. Nick Georges, from Hornhatch, near Guildford, Surrey, took two hours to scale the £1billion skyscraper project in central London. The activist, who is a member of Palestine Action and was arrested … Read more

Myanmar ambassador spent night in his car after being locked out of embassy

Myanmar’s ambassador spent the night in his car after staff at the country’s London embassy staged a mini-coup and locked him out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi  Kyaw Zwar Minn, a vocal opponent of the February coup in Myanmar which saw military leaders seize control, slept in a black Volvo XC60 outside the Mayfair … Read more

Myanmar’s London embassy seized by loyalists of country’s new military regime

Myanmar military take control of country’s London embassy as ambassador says he has been ‘betrayed’ by colleagues and locked out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn had been an opponent of February’s armed coup  Diplomatic sources told Reuters his deputy Chit Win has now taken charge  Police officers were scrambled to … Read more

Myanmar military take control of country’s London embassy

Myanmar military take control of country’s London embassy as ambassador says he has been ‘betrayed’ by colleagues and locked out for supporting Aung San Suu Kyi Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn had been an opponent of February’s armed coup  Diplomatic sources told Reuters his deputy Chit Win has now taken charge  Police officers were scrambled to … Read more

Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov gives thumbs up as he leaves the embassy in Washington

Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov gave a thumbs up as he left the Russian Embassy in Washington on Saturday amid the war of words between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. Antonov’s recall comes days after Biden referred to Russian president Vladimir Putin as a ‘killer’ and Russia recalled the ambassador in response. The … Read more

Embassy clerk, 65, dismissed from work after finding ‘young lady’ at her desk is awarded £109,000

Embassy clerk, 65, who returned from two-week holiday to find a ‘young lady’ had been given her job is awarded £109,000 Janice Dinsdale, now 72, was told she was ‘no longer required’ in job as a clerk  Ms Dinsale was working at High Commission of India in Aldwych, Central London After returning from a two-week … Read more

Embassy clerk, 65, dismissed from work after finding ‘young lady’ at her desk is awarded £109,000

Embassy clerk, 65, who was told she was ‘no longer required’ at work after returning from a two-week holiday to find a ‘young lady’ at her desk is awarded £109,000 Janice Dinsdale, now 72, was told she was ‘no longer required’ in job as a clerk  Ms Dinsale was working at High Commission of India … Read more

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court

British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing an anxious wait to learn whether she can leave Iran after her six-year prison ordeal following her trail today.  The 43-year-old mother was charged with ‘propaganda against the system’ and will have to wait for about a week before the judge decides whether she will be acquitted or … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband and daughter, six, protest at Iranian embassy

Source: PA April 3 2016: The mother-of-one is detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed her daughter Gabriella to her parents. July 12 2016: Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, delivers letters to Downing Street for outgoing prime minister David Cameron and his replacement Theresa … Read more