Diplomat

Business

Trump names billionaire investment banker as ambassador to Britain

Warren Stephens is head of Stephens Inc, a privately owned diversified financial services firm. Its headquarters are in Little Rock, Arkansas.

03/12/2024

Europe News

Russia expels British diplomat over spying allegations

The UK government has denied the accusation as 'baseless' as ties between London and Moscow continue to deteriorate over the conflict in Ukraine.

27/11/2024

Brazil

German diplomat charged with murdering Belgian husband in Brazil

According to prosecutors, the murder was "committed with cruel means" and Hahn's husband was "severely beaten, causing intense and unnecessary suffering".

30/08/2022

Russia

Putin will be 'humiliated' if he has to meet Zelenskyy, says defector

Boris Bondarev, a Russian diplomat who defected after the start of the war, shares his thoughts on the Ukraine war.

25/07/2022

Europe News

French diplomats strike over Macron's foreign service overhaul

French diplomats have gone on strike Thursday, angered by a planned reform of the country's foreign service by President Macron.

02/06/2022

Russia

EU countries expel dozens of Russian envoys amid war in Ukraine

The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the Czech Republic all expelled Russian officials.

29/03/2022

Russia

Russia expels three Slovakian diplomats in retaliatory move

Bratislava had expelled three Russian officials earlier this month for alleged diplomatic violations.

28/03/2022

Slovakia

Slovakia charges two suspects with spying for Russia

Slovakia's foreign ministry had said it would also expel three Russian diplomats for alleged spying and bribery.

14/03/2022

Bulgaria

Bulgaria expels two Russian diplomats for spying amid Ukraine tensions

One diplomat is accused of leaking "confidential information" about Bulgaria's defence ministry since 2016.

02/03/2022

Finland

Finnish diplomats were targeted by Pegasus spyware, says government

Pegasus software can infiltrate a mobile phone and allow its operators to gain access to the device’s contents and files.

28/01/2022

Poland

Polish official fired for branding country's Holocaust law as 'stupid'

Jaroslaw Nowak had slammed a 2018 law in Poland banning claims that the country also bore responsibility for the Holocaust.

10/01/2022

Germany

Embassy worker in Berlin died in 'tragic accident', says Russia

Der Spiegel has reported that the man was a 35-year-old Russian diplomat who fell from the embassy building in Berlin.

05/11/2021

Portugal

'Portuguese Schindler' honoured in ceremony at National Pantheon

Portugal has paid tribute to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a diplomat who helped save thousands of people from Nazi persecution during World War II.

19/10/2021

Iran

Swiss diplomat in Iran found dead after suspected fall from building

The body of an employee at the Swiss embassy in Iran was found at the foot of a building in northern Tehran after a "fall", authorities said.

04/05/2021

World News

EU rejects Russia's move to expel European diplomats: Borrell

"I reject the allegations that these diplomats were performing activities incompatible with their role as diplomats," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Euronews of Russia's move to expel European diplomats.

05/02/2021

Belgium

Iranian diplomat jailed for 20 years for planned attack in France

An Iranian diplomat was sentenced to the maximum 20-year prison term by a Belgian court for planning an attack against opponents of the Tehran regime in France in 2018.

04/02/2021

Ukraine

Ukraine and Hungary pledge to ease tensions over Transcarpathia

The two countries have clashed over whether ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine should be allowed to use their native language.

27/01/2021

Albania

Albania expels Russian diplomat for violating pandemic measures

Albanian Foreign Ministry says the diplomat had "continued to violate measures to protect against the pandemic".

22/01/2021

Russia

Russia expels two Dutch diplomats in tit-for-tat move

Russia's Foreign Ministry says that two Dutch diplomats will be expelled from the country in retaliation for a similar measure taken by the Netherlands in December.

18/01/2021

Russia

Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on senior German officials

The move comes after the EU sanctioned Russian military intelligence officials in October, accusing them of hacking Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015.

29/12/2020