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Russia’s bid to build a new embassy near Australia’s parliament suffered a legal blow on Monday, with a top court backing the government’s effort to seize the land. Australia has blocked Russia from building a new embassy in Canberra,…

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday the contested site of a proposed Russian embassy was secure, after it emerged a Russian diplomat was squatting on the land following the government’s decision to cancel the lease.…

Russia on Saturday said it would “respond” after Iceland became the first country to suspend its embassy operations in Moscow. “All of Reykjavik’s anti-Russian actions will inevitably prompt a response,” the Russian foreign ministry said…

A former UK Special Air Service soldier who took part in the 1980 storming of the Iranian embassy in London has died. Mel Parry, who served nearly 20 years in the SAS, was one of a team of 32 commandos who rescued 26 people from the…

The British Embassy in Cairo is hosting a high-level exhibition to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter and his Egyptian-UK team. The exhibition tells the story of Carter, the…

Jordan said on Monday that its embassy in Khartoum had been stormed and vandalized. Without identifying the perpetrators, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry denounced the attack on the embassy headquarters in the Sudanese capital and called…