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LBCI
19-06-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
European FMs aim to meet Iran for nuclear talks Friday in Geneva: Diplomats
Foreign ministers from key European powers France, Germany and Britain and the EU's top diplomat are aiming to meet their Iranian counterpart for nuclear talks in Geneva on Friday, European diplomats said. The meeting being planned comes as European countries call for de-escalation in the face of Israel's bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear program. AFP
Telegraph
15-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Families of British diplomats fled Iran before Israeli strikes
The families of British diplomats in Iran left the country shortly before Israel's missile attack on Tehran on Friday, The Telegraph understands. The UK has decided not to evacuate its embassy staff in the Iranian capital, despite direct threats to British assets in the Middle East. Iranian officials have said they will not hesitate to strike Britain directly if it assists in either defending Israel from Iranian attacks, or attacking Iran itself. Britain's embassy in Tehran is a key diplomatic asset, and has historically been used to ferry information and messages between the Iranian regime and the United States, which does not have formal diplomatic relations with the country or an embassy there. But while the diplomats are staying on, it is understood that family members left the country at the same time as some American officials evacuated, shortly before Israel's strike on Iranian nuclear facilities on Friday. Government officials are believed to have expected that the diplomatic situation between Iran and Israel would worsen before the strikes took place. The attack has prompted a series of Iranian counter-attacks and further Israeli strikes, while both sides have threatened each other with a full-scale war.
Washington Post
28-05-2025
- General
- Washington Post
These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all.
Huge volumes, bound in the timeless, red buckram linen of legacy books, are historians' gold — and crucial to the nation's understanding of how U.S. foreign policy is made. There is a dispatch from Japan to President Abraham Lincoln's administration describing the 'bloody affair' of July 1861, the 'daring and murderous attacks' by samurai warriors on British diplomats stationed in Edo, now known as Tokyo.
Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
European outrage after Israeli forces open fire on diplomats
European nations have expressed outrage after Israeli soldiers fired warning shots towards a delegation of foreign diplomats, including a senior British official, who were visiting the West Bank. The group of 25 diplomats from Europe as well as countries including Egypt, Jordan, Russia and China, were visiting a refugee camp in the city of Jenin as part of a visit organised by the Palestinian Authority, which administers much of the occupied West Bank. Among the delegation were two British diplomats, The Times understands. Neither was hurt. Israel said that the delegation had 'deviated from the approved route', prompting its troops to fire warning shots to scare them away from 'an area where they were not authorised to be'. A spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces
Times
16-05-2025
- Times
Diplomatic storm is brewing over ‘sad' British afternoon tea
It was meant to be a display of British refinement and delicacy, a demonstration of the delights of scones, jam and clotted cream. But British diplomats in Japan have been thrown onto the defensive after indignant complaints about the quality of a traditional afternoon tea. The storm in a tea cup blew up at the Expo currently being held in the city of Osaka. Visitors to the UK Pavilion are invited pay ¥5,000 (£26) each for a 'Four Nations Traditional Afternoon Tea' featuring Welsh jam, Scottish smoked salmon and Cornish cream. But the organisers have been assailed by complaints about sloppy service and mass-produced Japanese cakes served on Swedish trays. One social media user gave vent to her frustration in a series of vivid
