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NIAMEY/ABUJA: West African nations imposed sanctions and threatened force on Sunday if Niger's coup leaders fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week, while supporters of the junta attacked the French embassy in…

CHISINAU : Russia's embassy in Moldova has announced it will temporarily stop providing appointments for consular matters in what Moldovan officials say is a situation linked to the order by the country's authorities to reduce staff. A…

NIAMEY: Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coupthis week marched through the streets of the capital on Sunday denouncing the country's former colonial power and lighting a door at the French Embassy ablaze…

Israel Ambassador to India Naor Gilon has voiced concern over the "trivialisation" of Holocaust in Hindi movie 'Bawaal' released on Prime Video, saying it had "poor choice of terminology and symbolism". The VarunDhawan-starrer has stirred…

Published By: Shankhyaneel SarkarLast Updated: July 21, 2023, 07:25 ISTWashington D.C., United States of America (USA)Blinken’s visit comes as the US tries to appear as a relevant ally to the South Pacific nations amid growing Chinese…

Sweden on Thursday summoned Iraq’s charge d’affaires in Stockholm after protesters, angered by a planned Quran burning, stormed and set fires inside the country’s embassy compound in Baghdad.“The attacks against the Swedish embassy in Iraq…

BAGHDAD: Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Thursday (Jul 20), an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Quran in Sweden. Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held later on…

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the expected burning of a Qur’an in Sweden. All Baghdad embassy…

Last Updated: July 20, 2023, 07:38 ISTProtesters climb a fence as they gather near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad hours after the embassy was stormed and set on fire ahead of an expected Quran burning in Stockholm, in Baghdad, July 20.…

<!-- -->The source said no embassy staff had been harmed during the incident.Baghdad: Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning and set it on fire, a source familiar with the…