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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, already at the center of a post-election crisis, came under criticism from his own hard-line supporters Sunday for appointing a first vice president who once caused an outcry by saying Iranians were friends of Israelis.
Iran has released a British-Greek journalist held for more than two weeks since demonstrations erupted following disputed presidential elections, Iran's state television reported Sunday.
The European Union demanded on Thursday that Iran release all detained British Embassy staff amid disagreement over how many there were and discussion of a British proposal for the bloc to jointly withdraw all 27 of its ambassadors from the country.
Britain's foreign secretary categorically denied Sunday that his country had helped foment postelection discontent in Iran.
Witnesses in Iran say police have clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown criticized Iran on Tuesday for expelling two U.K. diplomats from Tehran for alleged spying, and announced that two Iranian diplomats were being sent home in retaliation.
Kurdish rebels on Tuesday rejected calls by Iraq's president to stop fighting against Turkey and leave Iraqi territory as the visiting Turkish president stepped up pressure on the Baghdad government to act against the group.
The British Embassy in Israel has canceled plans to relocate to new offices because one of the owners is believed to be involved in building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an official said on Wednesday.
Iran's official news agency says dozens of hardline students have broken into the British Embassy residence in Tehran.
A former Russian lawmaker and brother of a Chechen warlord was assassinated on Wednesday as he was stopped at a traffic light just outside the British Embassy in Moscow, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Several thousand protesters gathered outside the British Embassy on Tuesday to demand that London extradite former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to face criminal charges at home.
Russia has accused the British Embassy's top trade official in Moscow of espionage, the British Foreign Office confirmed Friday.
A British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of writing project headed home Monday after being pardoned — ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims.
A British teacher jailed after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was released Monday hours after Sudan's president pardoned her, a British Embassy spokesman said.
A French magistrate denied Tuesday that she authorized the embalming of Princess Diana's body, or that anyone from the British Embassy in Paris had discussed embalming with her. The French embalmer who prepared the body said he suggested the procedure.
Iranian state radio reported that all 15 British sailors and marines held captive by Iran have confessed to illegally entering Iranian waters but, in an apparent softening in the dispute, said their statements would not air because of "positive changes" from Britain.
Two British tourists died when an elephant charged them in western Zimbabwe, the British Embassy in Harare said Monday. A third injured Briton was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Several hundred hard-line students threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran on Sunday, blaming Britain and the United States for the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq.
Iran resumes mass trial for election protestersTwitter, Facebook and Google's newly introduced Persian-to-English translation software were part of a vast foreign conspiracy against Iran sketched out by a prosecutor at the second session of an extraordinary trial against alleged ringleaders of weeks of unrest unfolding in Ira …
Mousavi labelled 'US agent' as Iran charges UK official The stakes over Iran's disputed presidential election were raised dramatically yesterday, after a powerful regime hardliner denounced Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate officially declared to have lost, as an American agent and demanded that he undergo a public trial.
Iranian cleric says British Embassy employees will be tried A senior Iranian cleric said today that several employees of the British Embassy in Tehran arrested in recent days would be put on trial for unspecified charges of acting against Iran's national security, potentially escalating a confrontation with the West over last month's disp …
Iran arrests British embassy staff for "role in riots"Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London's fury on Sunday and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic.
Cover-up in Iraq: Shooting the messengerDavid Miliband is criticised by a high-powered Commons committee today over claims that he "washed his hands" of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women at the British embassy in Baghdad.
'Stand with Gaza or leave Iran' The students, who stormed a British embassy compound earlier in the evening, sent an open letter to the director of the interests section on Tuesday and set a 48-hour deadline for the Egyptian government to condemn the Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Philippines angry at Enfield showComedian Harry Enfield's BBC show has been labelled "disgraceful and distasteful" by members of the Philippine community in the UK. A petition has been launched condemning the Harry And Paul show for a sketch in which one man urged another to "mount" a Filipina maid.
This letter was sent to me today in an email by a friend. It was released by the US Embassy in Nairobi. Barack Obama had been on a radio programme in the country and was thanking them for having him on, while addressing the Kenyan people.
US Embassy in Azerbaijan a Terror TargetBAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - The U.S. and British embassies suspended operations Monday in Baku, where the government said it thwarted a radical Islamic group's plot to conduct a ``large-scale horrifying terror attack'' against diplomatic missions and government buildings.
'UK girl, 3, snatched in Nigeria' - Yahoo! News UKKidnappers snatched the three-year-old British daughter of an expatriate worker as she was being taken to school in Nigeria's restive southern oil region, police said.
Iranian guests attacked at British embassy partyThe British embassy in Tehran is expected to lodge a diplomatic protest after Iranian guests were attacked by demonstrators and detained by police after a reception to celebrate the Queen's birthday.
A New York Times story published online a few minutes ago has the following headline: Israel Storms British Embassy and Captures Palestinian Gunman. The story begins as follows:
Palestinian Attacks UK EmbassyLarge police and Magen David Adom teams were dispatched to the British Embassy in Tel Aviv Thursday noon.
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