[Link] Russia’s Ambassador to the US Says He Hasn’t Talked to Putin in Almost 5 Years

Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com

Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s top diplomat in the U.S.

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[Link] North Korea Is Pissed After Pakistani Police Raided Its Embassy Over Bootlegging Suspicions

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Pakistan has apologized to North Korea for raiding the North Korean Embassy in a bizarre diplomatic row involving rogue cops and allegedly illicit booze. The embassy on Tuesday accused Islamabad police of breaking into its premises and threatened intervening diplomatic staff with guns.

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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.

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[Link] Afghan embassies don’t recognise the Taliban

Read: 19/10/2021 www.economist.com

THE TALIBAN prevent girls from going to secondary school in Afghanistan. Yet the country’s ambassador to America is a woman. That is not because the group has decided that women’s rights are a good thing after all. It is just that they cannot replace her.

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[Link] Israel says US plan to reopen Jerusalem consulate is ‘bad idea’

Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Israel has said a US plan to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem that was traditionally a base for diplomatic outreach to Palestinians is a “bad idea” and could destabilise the prime minister’s new government.

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