U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
The explosives-laden car was detonated just outside the embassy building in Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood early in the morning, before any of the embassy staff had arrived inside the diplomatic mission, two Libyan security officials said.
Assange has been effectively confined for the past two months to the diplomatic mission -- a suite of rooms covering half of one floor of a townhouse in a posh London neighborhood south of Hyde Park.
The move will make the UK the largest diplomatic mission in India.
Late last week the administration decided - apropos of nothing - to upgrade the diplomatic status of the PLO mission in Washington.
On Sept. 11, four Americans including the U.S. Ambassador in Libya Chris Stevens were killed when militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission on the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
Her comments came on the eve of a diplomatic mission to Belgrade by the acting Cyprus president, Spyros Kyprianou, to try to secure the release of the three U.S. Army soldiers.
"The United States deplores the attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi ... we have requested the Libyan Ministry of Interior to increase its security around U.S. facilities in Libya, " the embassy said.
The action is part of the campaign organized by the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Brazil to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A member of the "Cuban Five" spy group renounced his United States citizenship at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Monday, removing the final obstacle to his permanent return to the island.
For years after, whenever I stopped in Delhi on assignment, the High Commission would politely ask me if I'd decided what to do with Ronnie's duck guns, which the great man had left at our diplomatic mission, presumably because he felt the fearsome Indian customs officers might create such a fuss his own exit might be delayed.
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The review board, created after the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, harshly criticized leadership and management at two State Department bureaus that allowed the post to be inadequately protected.
Recent reports have suggested the US may even consider opening a diplomatic mission in Tehran - which would be the first such link since the US hostage crisis nearly 30 years ago.
Again, the reforms that have been taken, the reforms that need to be done on issues like rule of law, ethic -- the need for national reconciliation, the -- again, the -- and then the role the U.S. can play in supporting Burmese development going forward with the easing of our sanctions, with the USAID mission, and with our increased diplomatic engagement with the country.
It was the worst attack on a diplomatic mission in Libya since Steven's slaying.
French and American military leaders have offered varying degrees of logistical and diplomatic support for the mission.
Martin Dempsey during the latter's testimony about September's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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Last September, a terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
But he said Islamic extremists maintain a strong presence in the North African country, and were directly involved in the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi in September.
They will fall under the U.S. diplomatic mission, rather than report to a military commander, and they will depend on a contract air wing run by the State Department to move around the country.
The administration also learned a tough political lesson around the word terror when Obama was hesitant to say it outright when first describing the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
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The group has been connected to the recent assault on the natural gas facility in Algiers and the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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But he led the charge against him in the Senate, stalling the nomination at one point in exchange for more information from the White House on the deadly September terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Mr Hague said opposition groups in eastern Libya formed an interim national council in Benghazi on Saturday and ministers and Foreign Office officials "are in contact with members of this council, who welcomed the idea of a British diplomatic mission to Libya".
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In the aftermath of the murderous attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, she joined Mr. Obama and others in insisting - despite abundant evidence to the contrary - that it had been precipitated by a "disgusting and reprehensible" act of free expression, namely, a video denigrating Muhammad produced by a California man.
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The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says the British government has provided technical training to the team, whose mission has been delayed by diplomatic wrangling over access and their security.
This month in Tehran, Iran's capital, government-orchestrated crowds of students hurled Molotov cocktails at the offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines, attacked Egypt's diplomatic mission and called for Mr Mubarak's execution as a traitor.
Moving from the serious global implications of having one beer while on a diplomatic mission, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was also taken to task this week for flying home each weekend on government aircraft to California in order to be with his family.
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The UK embassy in Tripoli suspended operations in February but it has a diplomatic mission in rebel-held Benghazi.
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He asked Mr Cameron who authorised the botched mission in Benghazi, in which six British troops and two diplomatic staff were detained by Libyan opposition forces.
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