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In honor of Black History Month, U.S. Embassy colleagues met with Access program students at the American Corner in Podgorica to discuss important moments, movements, and icons of the African American community. ICITAP Montenegro Mission Advisor Elvis Vukelj discussed the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and famous African American activists. Armando Hosey from the Office of […]
The United States has sent a specialized Marine unit to help secure the U.S. Embassy in Haiti as the country struggles through a political transition amid rising gang violence, authorities said . . .
The United States military conducted an overnight operation Saturday into Sunday to evacuate American personnel by airlift from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti as violence escalates in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and across the Caribbean country, U.S. Southern Command said in a statement Sunday. Additional security was deployed as part of the operation, officials said. “At […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.S. military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave. The aircraft flew to the embassy compound, the U.S. Southern Command said, meaning that the effort involved helicopters. It was careful to point out that […]
The United States embassy in Haiti began evacuating some of its personnel on Sunday due to escalating gang violence. “The U.S. Embassy in Haiti remains open. Heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near U.S. embassy compounds and near the airport led to the State Department’s decision to arrange for the departure of additional embassy personnel. […]
By Tom Geoghegan, Kayla Epstein, and Mike Wendling BBC News 26 February 2024 Image caption, A vigil was held on Monday for Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli embassy in DC A US airman has died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC on Sunday, shouting “free Palestine”. Aaron […]
A man set himself on fire on Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, confirmed on Sunday night that the man was an active-duty airman. Officers with the U.S. Secret Service extinguished the fire outside the embassy, in northwestern Washington, around […]
An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force is in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington on Sunday, according to authorities. The Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to the scene to assist the U.S. Secret Service “after an individual set themselves on fire in front of an […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured Sunday after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, walked […]
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images US Secret Service vehicles block access to a street leading to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on February 25, 2024. CNN — An active-duty member of the US Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday, according to the Air Force and local authorities.