WASHINGTON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in the United States has sent a letter to the editorial board of The Washington Post in protest of an op-ed carried recently by the newspaper that absurdly related the Taiwan question to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. Sent by Minister Counselo...
As Nicholas Cull writes, in “The Cold War and the United States Information Agency,” the VOA’s plans for 1955 included a “disk jockey program ostensibly aimed at Scandinavia but reaching the U.S.S.R, originally proposed by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.” Cull recalls how listeners in...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski publicly stated on the Internet that the White House should apologize for this “outrageous error.” The Polish Embassy in the U.S. also published guidelines on its website on how to correct the term “Polish death camp,” adding, “We cannot allow histo...
rushed in with his hands up, shouting the Arabic word for “immunity.” This was my cue and I dug out my embassy assignment card and handed it to him. Of course he didn’t know what it said but as we were immune from about everything else he thought I hadn’t got a picture yet ...
and other security forces on the move. Then Colonel [Farzanegan] called the office to say that things had gone badly, and he, himself, was on the run toward the Embassy in search of refuge. At 0600 hours he appeared, gave a summary of the situation, which was like that of the gover...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it has reestablished a "permanent diplomatic presence" in Somalia for the first time in 27 years. "On December 2, for the first time since the closure of the U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu on January 5, 1991...
Khomeini had not known about the embassy takeover in advance, but because this blow against "the Great Satan" was quite popular throughout Iran, he was able to use the crisis to build support for an Islamic Republic. Frustrated by the Ayatollah's unwillingness to negotiate, Carter approved a...
In December last year, the United States vetoed a UN draft resolution that aims to protect the status of Jerusalem, and halt Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite regional and international outcry...