To stop the diplomatic staff of opposition leader Juan Guaidó and his appointed diplomatic staff from taking up posts in the building while embattled socialist president President Nicholas Maduro is still in office.
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Washington evacuated most of its diplomatic staff two days later.
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It also issued an "authorized departure" notice to all diplomatic staff.
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The entire diplomatic staff for the country was barely a dozen people.
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None of the Saudi diplomatic staff was in the embassy at the time.
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The government also ecacuated diplomatic staff from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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Moscow responded by limiting the size of the U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia.
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When Iranian diplomatic staff return to Ottawa, their bank accounts may be empty.
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The government also evacuated diplomatic staff from Wuhan, China, the center of the outbreak.
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He said that for over a year Britain had been delaying visas to diplomatic staff.
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He condemned the killing and demanded increased security for Pakistani diplomatic staff from Afghan authorities.
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Putin and Trump could agree in Helsinki to restore the full complement of diplomatic staff.
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Canada's diplomatic staff in Cuba will drop to eight from 16, a Canadian government source said.
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President Trump thanked Vladimir Putin for slashing the payroll of the American diplomatic staff in Russia.
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In Madrid, Spain's foreign ministry said it would expel three Bolivian diplomatic staff over the matter.
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The safety and security of US citizens and our diplomatic staff overseas are among our highest priorities.
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Vladimir Putin responded by demanding that America reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia by some 2194 people.
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Removing all diplomatic staff, partly as an act of defiance against Maduro, surely won't calm any tensions.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin responded by demanding the U.S. cut its diplomatic staff there by 755 people.
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The United States had already evacuated hundreds of diplomatic staff from the embassy, citing unspecified threats from Iran.
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The State Department had already announced that it would withdraw its remaining diplomatic staff from Venezuela this week.
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Canada went as far as pulling all families of diplomatic staff out of Cuba, just to be safe.
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On Sunday, President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. must reduce its diplomatic staff by 755 employees by September.
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The Mexican government has accused the Anez administration of harassing and intimidating its diplomatic staff in La Paz.
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Iran's diplomatic staff evacuated the consulate before the attack, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said Thursday.
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"The health, safety and security of our diplomatic staff and their families remain our priority," the statement said.
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The U.S. withdrew all diplomatic staff from Venezuela after recognizing Guaidó as the country's interim president 3 months ago.
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No diplomatic staff inside the embassy were injured, although the walls and reception area of the compound were damaged.
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In a statement, the Canadian government acknowledged the case, and announced that diplomatic staff in Cuba would be halved.
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To name a few: there was the spat with Canada, which saw the Saudis recall all of its diplomatic staff.
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Each time after a decent interval, the sides tend to find ways to restore most or all their diplomatic staff.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he held out the option of future of U.S. diplomatic staff cuts in Russia.
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In response, the Kremlin ordered the U.S. to cut the size of its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 employees.
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Russia's government responded to the sanctions by ordering the U.S. embassy and missions in Russia to reduce its diplomatic staff.
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"The health, safety and security of our diplomatic staff and their families remain our priority," said a statement last week.
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But the administration's failure to mention the detention of other American citizens or locally employed diplomatic staff in Turkey worried advocates.
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America, one of many democracies that recognises Mr Maduro's rival, Juan Guaidó, as the interim president, withdrew its remaining diplomatic staff.
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The United States will withdraw all remaining diplomatic staff from Venezuela this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday night.
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However, Putin's demand that the US cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people had nothing to do with payroll.
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President Vladimir Putin has ordered the United States to cut around 60 percent of its diplomatic staff in Russia by Sept.
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The U.S. and Venezuela have not exchanged ambassadors in nearly a decade, but do maintain diplomatic staff in each other's countries.
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Politico reports that State Department officials are worried Trump's possible declaration could lead to violence targeting U.S. embassies and diplomatic staff.
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The United States can decide which diplomatic staff in Russia it wants to cut, the Kremlin said Monday, according to Reuters.
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Last week, Washington pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf.
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U.S. diplomatic staff used the property at times to hold parties for students, journalists and other diplomats, the news service added.
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Earlier this week the United States pulled some diplomatic staff from its Baghdad embassy following attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to Congress passing the bill by demanding the U.S. cut its diplomatic staff there by 755 people.
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This annoyed European allies, many of whom sent only low-level diplomatic staff — or not representation at all — to attend the meeting.
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Last month Washington warned of a threat to its diplomatic staff in Mogadishu and directed all non-essential staff to leave the city.
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Earlier this week, Washington pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following weekend attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf.
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Russia responded in kind to the US' sanctions after several months delay and ordered large cuts in the US diplomatic staff in Russia.
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He also thanked Putin for forcing the US to reduce its diplomatic staff in a comment the White House later described as sarcastic.
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A former Russian Foreign Ministry employee told Reuters that the facility in Maryland was a dacha used by diplomatic staff and their children.
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Trump's plan may also cut the agency's diplomatic staff dedicated to addressing climate change and conducting outreach to Muslim communities, Bloomberg said Monday.
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Earlier this week the United States pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in neighboring Iraq following attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf.
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Among the topics addressed: Mitch McConnell, Vladimir Putin and cuts to U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia, Robert Mueller, transgender troops and the opioid crisis.
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Mexico says Bolivian authorities have harassed and intimidated its diplomatic staff, and has asked the International Court of Justice to mediate in the dispute.
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"Some of our diplomatic staff and their family members started to experience unusual symptoms in March 2017, including earaches, dizziness and headaches," said Adam Austen.
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Earlier this month, the U.S. warned of a threat to its diplomatic staff in Mogadishu and directed all non-essential staff to leave the capital.
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The United States pulled most of its diplomatic staff out of Cuba last year after the mysterious illnesses that were experienced by 26 American personnel.
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U.S. Senate Republicans failed to dismantle Obamacare, Russia ordered the U.S. to cut diplomatic staff and an Amazon wobble created ripples across worldwide stock markets.
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Earlier this week, the United States pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following weekend attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently told his diplomatic staff that US foreign policy should separate "the way people are treated," from US foreign policy.
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The downgrade was triggered by a spate of unexplained illness among U.S. diplomatic staff in Havana that Canada says has also affected its embassy staff.
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Pompeo reportedly heard advice on replenishing top diplomatic staff from former secretaries of State he reached out to prior to the hearing, including Hillary Clinton.
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This year, however, President Trump reversed parts of the reconciliation, and Washington expelled Cuban diplomats after a possible covert attack on diplomatic staff in Havana.
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Failing that, Mr. Putin said he could reduce United States diplomatic staff in Russia by 155 more positions, in addition to the 755 already eliminated.
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Earlier this week the United States pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following weekend attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf.
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Exxon evacuated staff last month after the United States cited unspecified threats from Iran for a decision to take hundreds of diplomatic staff out of Iraq.
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Putin ordered the cuts in US diplomatic staff before Trump signed the sanctions bill -- so it looked like he was responding to Congress and not Trump.
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Angered by Duque's support for Guaido, Maduro said he was breaking diplomatic relations with Bogota and gave its diplomatic staff 24 hours to leave the country.
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" The New York Times reported Thursday that Trump told U.S. diplomatic staff that he thought whoever provided information to the whistleblower was "close to a spy.
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Putin ordered the cuts in diplomatic staff after legislation overwhelmingly passed by Congress that increased sanctions against Russia and limited President Trump's ability to lift penalties.
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He is a veteran of one of the eight Republican investigations into Hillary Clinton's alleged culpability for the deaths of American diplomatic staff in Benghazi in 2012.
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The strange sonic occurrences have disrupted operations in the affected consulates and resulted in the US pulling its diplomatic staff from Cuba, icing relations between the countries.
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Canada in April also ordered families of diplomatic staff in Cuba to return home after mysterious health symptoms were detected in 10 Canadians stationed on the island.
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In late July, Putin ordered the United States reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 employees after Trump signed a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia.
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She did not say how many diplomatic staff in Russia would be affected, while the British Embassy in Moscow says it does not make staff numbers public.
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Pressed about these particular vacancies in mid-October, State Department deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino noted that there were senior diplomatic staff at the helms of the embassies.
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Most U.S. diplomatic staff, including around 300 U.S. citizens, work in the main embassy in Moscow, with others based in consulates in St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok.
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In a speech Wednesday, Maduro responded by saying he will cut off diplomatic relations with the U.S. and that American diplomatic staff have 72 hours to leave Venezuela.
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The U.S. Wednesday ordered all non-emergency diplomatic staff to leave Iraq, after two separate attacks in the region and as the U.S. responds to other nonspecific threats.
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The U.S. expedited the deployment of military assets to the Persian Gulf and withdrew diplomatic staff from Iraq, claiming threats by Iran against U.S. positions in the region.
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The U.S. later withdrew much of its diplomatic staff from Iraq, citing intelligence reports alleging threats and evidence of heightened activity from Iranian-backed proxies in the country.
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Earlier, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed to Putin that Moscow expel 35 U.S. diplomats and ban U.S. diplomatic staff from using two facilities in Moscow, his ministry said.
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The Russian ambassador to Yemen and some diplomatic staff will be working temporarily out of the Saudi capital Riyadh, the Interfax news agency cited the ministry as saying.
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A blistering Pentagon report blamed Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and cut diplomatic staff in Iraq for the resurgence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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Although the reduction in American diplomatic staff had been announced Friday, Mr. Putin's statement on Sunday was the first to confirm the large number of embassy personnel involved.
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The State Department is denying reports that a worker at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan experienced an acoustic attack similar to those affecting American diplomatic staff in Cuba.
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Only 10 diplomatic staff now remain at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, after a series of mysterious sonic "attacks" that lead to the U.S. reducing its presence there.
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The U.S. moved in September to withdraw most of its diplomatic staff from the embassy in Havana, and soon after expelled a number of Cuban diplomats from Washington.
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The images were reportedly found in Warren's possession in May 113, after he accidentally sent an email to a diplomatic staff member from an address in someone else's name.
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The images were reportedly found in Warren's possession in May 2010, after he accidentally sent an email to a diplomatic staff member from an address in someone else's name.
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Most foreign employees working in the oil sector have left the country, and most Western diplomatic staff were evacuated from Tripoli in 2014 amid heavy fighting between rival factions.
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The report specifically said President Donald Trump's decision to rapidly draw down troops in Syria and pull diplomatic staff from Iraq increased instability and allowed the militants to regroup.
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He announced in a speech aired live on state broadcaster VTV that he was closing the Venezuelan embassy and all consulates in the US and recalling all diplomatic staff.
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But Trump's habit of improvisation, disinterest in organized messaging, and refusal to hire key diplomatic staff is hobbling his ability to tackle the issue in a remotely effective way.
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The judge prevented family members, diplomatic staff and journalists from entering the court to hear the interim decision and only allowed Mr. Topuz and his lawyers to be present.
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On Tuesday, NBC News reported that Russia has emerged as the main suspect among American investigators probing a mysterious illness among U.S. diplomatic staff stationed in Cuba and China.
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The Canadian statement said that after the last confirmed case of unusual health symptoms in November 2018, a number of Canadian diplomatic staff in Cuba underwent additional medical testing.
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In a letter to the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico said the Bolivians were "intimidating" diplomatic staff and attempted to "detain and inspect" the ambassador's vehicle on Monday.
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Vladimir Putin confirmed Sunday that 755 US diplomatic staff would have to leave by September 1, as the Kremlin hit back at new sanctions passed by Congress last week.
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Other scientific research has concluded that either pulsed radiofrequency or microwave radiation could have produced the effects noted by the diplomatic staff and medical personnel, Science Daily wrote this week.
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The Trump administration just gave Russia 72 hours to close three of its diplomatic facilities in America in retaliation for kicking out more than 700 US diplomatic staff last month.
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Maduro said he was breaking diplomatic relations with Colombia and ordered its diplomatic staff to leave Venezuela within 24 hours because of its government's assistance to opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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Tillerson said he told Lavrov the United States would respond to the Kremlin's order for it to cut about 60 percent of its diplomatic staff in Russia by September 1.
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If you recall, in July, the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the United States to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by nearly half in response to expanded sanctions by Congress.
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Cuba will now be designated an "unaccompanied post" meaning that the families of diplomatic staff will not be able to live with them while they are assigned to the country.
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Moscow blasted the bill and then told the US it had to reduce the size of its diplomatic staff by 755 as well as banning it from using two properties.
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Vladimir Putin confirmed Sunday that 755 U.S. diplomatic staff would have to leave Russia by September 1, as the Kremlin hit back at new sanctions passed by Congress last week.
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This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.
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In a statement, the United States Embassy in Tokyo said that "due to privacy concerns," it could not comment on whether members of its diplomatic staff had visited Mr. Kelly.
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When the Obama administration expelled 35 diplomats over Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Russian government told the United States to cut its diplomatic staff inside Russia by 755.
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In December Mr. Putin, hoping for rapprochement under Mr. Trump, declined to respond to Mr. Obama's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomatic staff members and the seizure of Russian diplomatic property.
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The US tightened sanctions against Russia and closed several of its diplomatic compounds in the country, while Moscow forced the US to cut back on its diplomatic staff in Russia.
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Palestinian leaders have called for three "days of rage" against the United States over the embassy change, presenting a challenge for diplomatic staff charged with protecting Americans and handling diplomacy.
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The Trump administration insists the current policy will remain in place until the mystery of the health problems among diplomatic staff, which it often refers to as "attacks," is solved.
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Angered by the Colombian government's support for opposition leader Juan Guaido, Maduro said he was breaking diplomatic relations with Bogota and gave its diplomatic staff 24 hours to leave the country.
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He added that his country will also halt all bilateral cooperative projects, cut all assistance to Burkina Faso, and pull out its diplomatic staff and technical missions from the African country.
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Maduro, who appeared wearing the presidential sash, said Venezuelan diplomatic staff was expected back in Caracas by Saturday, adding that they would hold "a festive welcoming act" for the returning staff.
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In a tweet late Monday night, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement with very little warning to only a handful of diplomatic staff beforehand, multiple US officials told me.
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Photo: APBizarre reports of US diplomatic staff in Cuba suffering from symptoms resembling brain trauma, allegedly after hearing unsettling sounds resembling scraping metal or insects buzzing, have continued to baffle medical researchers.
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"This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy," Pompeo tweeted.
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There are almost no diplomatic staff at the department who speak and understand Korean, while key policy positions such as the role of special envoy for North Korea Human Rights remain vacant.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul railed against President Trump on Thursday after he thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff by 220006 people.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Bolivian security and intelligence officials are still surrounding Mexico's embassy in La Paz and continue to intimidate the ambassador and diplomatic staff.
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Vladimir Putin has ordered the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 by September 1 in response to the latest round of sanctions passed by Congress, the NY Times reports.
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With the inevitability of this bill passing, the Russians have responded by ordering the U.S. to cut 28503 percent of the diplomatic staff, a total of 22019 from the embassy and consulate staff.
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It's a case that has baffled top U.S. intelligence officials for almost a year: 21 U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba have reported suffering from mysterious injuries ranging from brain swelling to problems concentrating.
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An official at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, who declined to be named because they were not allowed to speak to the media, said there were around 1,100 U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia.
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In late July, Putin ordered the United States reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 employees in retaliation against new US sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for meddling in the 2016 election.
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Since the 755 number exceeds the number of US hires, it's unclear how many of the staff Putin has directed the US to remove are actually US diplomatic staff stationed in Russia versus locals.
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At the time, the Trump administration announced it would drastically reduce its diplomatic staff in Cuba and expel more than a dozen Cuban diplomats over months of alleged "health attacks" directed at U.S. personnel.
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At the time, the Trump administration announced it would drastically reduce its diplomatic staff in Cuba and expel more than a dozen Cuban diplomats over months of alleged "health attacks" directed at U.S. personnel.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted to the bill even before it reached Trump's desk, ordering the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755, in a move reminiscent of the Cold War.
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"We have underscored repeatedly to the Cuban government its responsibility for the safety, well-being, security and protection of our diplomatic staff, under the Vienna Convention, in Havana," the State Department official said Tuesday.
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In making the initial announcement on Friday, Russia said that the American diplomatic staff would have to be reduced to 455, matching the number of Russians employed at diplomatic missions in the United States.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Thursday about the Canadian government's decision to withdraw some of its diplomatic staff from its embassy in Cuba misstated when the Trump administration expelled Cuban diplomats from the United States.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin retaliated against new US sanctions legislation widely expected to be signed by President Donald Trump, announcing on Sunday he would expel or have the US otherwise cut 755 US diplomatic staff.
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BEDMINSTER, NJ (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he was being sarcastic when he thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for saving the United States money by ordering cuts in U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday announced plans to expel 35 U.S. diplomats and ban U.S. diplomatic staff from using a dacha and a warehouse in Moscow in retaliation to Washington's sanctions, Russian news agencies reported.
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Meanwhile, Washington has expedited the deployment of warships and bombers to the Middle East and pulled diplomatic staff from Iraq in response to intelligence suggesting Iran is planning attacks on U.S. positions in the region.
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That creativity may have been on display in recent years in Southeast Asia, where local and international authorities have accused diplomatic staff in connection with a potential assassination plot and an intricate arms smuggling operation.
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Ryabkov's comments come after Russia demanded Friday that the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia and said it would seize two US diplomatic properties in a sharp response to the new sanctions bill.
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Before Moscow's deadline for the US to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia, the US ordered the closure of three Russian facilities in the US. CNN's Laura Koran and Antonia Mortensen contributed to this report
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Following a Russian order that the US cut its diplomatic staff in Russia, Tillerson announced last week that Russia must close its consulate in San Francisco and two diplomatic annexes in New York and Washington.
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"The Government of Canada continues to investigate the potential causes of unusual health symptoms reported in 2017 by some Canadian diplomatic staff and dependents posted to Havana, Cuba," Global Affairs Canada wrote in a statement.
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The incidents prompted the Trump administration earlier this year to withdraw about 60 percent of U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba and to expel some Cuban diplomats in Washington, further raising tensions between the two countries.
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Even during past diplomatic endeavors, like the 1993-'94 nuclear talks that produced the now-defunct Agreed Framework deal under which North Korea pledged not to pursue weapons, negotiations were primarily handled by diplomatic staff.
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Last month, the Canadian government said it would withdraw half of its diplomatic staff in Cuba after another employee fell ill from the condition, which it said had affected 14 Canadian employees, spouses and dependents.
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On Friday, Mexico's government said Bolivian authorities harassed and intimidated its diplomatic staff and impeded the departure of Spanish officials visiting its embassy in the capital where a number of Morales' allies had holed up.
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From thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of American diplomatic staff, to insisting he was doing the US military "a great favor" in banning transgender people from serving, Trump's unscripted responses were...a lot.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday his government had broken relations with Colombia and would expel some Colombian diplomatic staff after Colombia assisted the opposition's efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country.
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In July, the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by nearly half and announced it would seize two US diplomatic properties in response to expanded sanctions passed by Congress.
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The Cuban government criticized Canada's decision in January to cut the number of diplomatic staff in Cuba by up to half after another person fell ill, bringing the total of Canadians suffering unexplained symptoms to 14.
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Separately, Pakistan's foreign ministry said it would apply travel restrictions to all U.S. diplomatic staff similar to those applied by Washington, according to a notification sent to the U.S. Embassy on Friday and obtained by Reuters.
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"This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy," Pompeo said via Twitter late Monday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the United States to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia, remarks likely to rekindle criticism of Trump's kid-gloves handling of Putin.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia does not rule out ordering the United States to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia to 300 people or fewer, RIA news agency quoted senior Foreign Ministry official Georgy Borisenko as saying on Wednesday.
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The dacha, which is being confiscated along with a U.S. warehouse in the south of the Russian capital, was used by U.S. diplomatic staff at the weekends and to host parties for students, journalists and other diplomats.
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"We have reached a general agreement that we will start to restore diplomatic staff in Moscow and in London some time in January," TASS quoted Russia's ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko as saying in a televised interview.
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In July, the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the United States to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by nearly half and announced it would seize two US diplomatic properties in response to expanded sanctions passed by Congress.
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After Congress passed a new sanctions bill in July that hit Russian businesses and individuals, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the U.S. to reduce its diplomatic staff from about 85033,200 to 455 by the start of September.
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"Our priority today is looking after our staff in Russia and assisting those that will return to the UK," the British Foreign Office said in a statement Saturday reported by Reuters, as the diplomatic staff leaves Moscow.
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" The decision to turn the Canadian embassy in Havana into an "unaccompanied post" comes just four months after the federal government said it wouldn't pull diplomatic staff from the Caribbean country following reported but unproven "sonic attacks.
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It was hard not to notice that virtually the entire U.S. diplomatic staff never spoke about executing U.S. foreign policy as determined by the president of the United States — the man in charge, according to the Constitution.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has decided to cut the number of diplomatic staff in Cuba by up to half after another person fell ill, Ottawa said on Wednesday, bringing the total to 14 Canadians suffering mysterious symptoms since 2017.
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Embassies and consulates the world over are seen as places of political refuge, and while they are subject to some local laws, the facility and the diplomatic staff working inside are shielded from law enforcement in some cases.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's foreign ministry on Tuesday again accused Bolivian security and intelligence officials of harassing its diplomatic staff in La Paz, despite remarks by the Mexican president earlier in the day that obtrusive surveillance was easing.
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An American officer who was caught up in Hong Kong during those fateful weeks and later repatriated as diplomatic staff reported that the defense was ineffective, but that there no shortage of bravery from the troops, says Macri.
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U.S. diplomatic staff in Venezuela are defying the order of President Nicolás Maduro to leave the country by Saturday and bracing for a backlash from the socialist leader and his military as they hold their grip on power.
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Vladimir Putin's Russia, the nation that Trump has most wanted to court, is retaliating against Congress' new round of sanctions by seizing US properties and calling for a reduction in its diplomatic staff by the end of the year.
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President Donald Trump was saved from mistakenly tweeting that Tom Hanks had died from the novel coronavirus after his diplomatic staff misunderstand reports about the actor being "discharged" from an Australian hospital, according to the newspaper The Courier-Mail.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of barring diplomatic staff from a property on the outskirts of Moscow, after having earlier agreed to grant access until midday on Tuesday for them to retrieve belongings.
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Embassy payback: After both houses of Congress passed a sweeping sanctions bill, Russia ordered the United States over the weekend to cut its diplomatic staff in the country by 755 employees in order to match Russia's presence in the United States.
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Last week I traveled with colleagues to Central America's Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — where we spent five days meeting with heads of state, law enforcement, business leaders, U.S. ambassadors and diplomatic staff, USAID officials, and working people.
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On Thursday, Trump's administration announced it would shut down Russian diplomatic missions in US cities, seemingly in response to an order from the Russian Foreign Ministry in July for Washington to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by nearly half.
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Lavrov, who said the decision suggested Washington didn't think its reduced diplomatic staff could adapt to new circumstances, said Russia would carefully study the U.S. decision and promised that Moscow would not take out its anger on ordinary U.S. citizens.
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XIAMEN, China (Reuters) - Russia reserves the right to cut further the number of U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, in response to what he called Washington's "boorish" treatment of Russia's diplomatic mission on U.S. soil.
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"We have reached a general agreement that we will start to restore diplomatic staff in Moscow and in London some time in January," the TASS news agency earlier quoted Russia's ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko as saying in a television interview.
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Two weeks ago, Mr. Putin seized two American diplomatic properties and ordered the American diplomatic staff cut by more than half, retaliating for sanctions imposed by Congress to punish Russia's meddling in last year's presidential election in the United States.
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Since that meeting, the official tone has turned more belligerent, with Russia threatening to expel American diplomats to match the 35 Russian diplomatic staff members kicked out of the United States at the same time that the two compounds were seized.
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Guaido backers point to increasing numbers of defections as diplomatic staff outside Venezuela and at least one high level official inside the country have cast their lot with the 35-year-old, US-educated president of the country's National Assembly.
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The move is in direct retaliation for the Kremlin's decision in July to cut the number of U.S. diplomatic staff working in Russia by 755, which State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert called "unwarranted and detrimental" in a teleconference with reporters Thursday.
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Russia orders U.S. to cut diplomatic staff, says to seize diplomatic property An earnings miss by Amazon that hit U.S. technology stocks overnight rippled through into other markets, with Asian stocks retreating from recent highs and European tech shares opening sharply lower.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Melania Trump joined Prime Minister Theresa May's husband Philip on Tuesday at a garden party at Downing Street where, under cloudy skies, they listened to a brass band and met the children of British and American diplomatic staff.
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Putin said on Sunday Russia had ordered the United States to cut 755 of its 1,200 diplomatic staff in its embassy and consular operations, though many of those let go will be Russian citizens, with the United States allowed to choose who leaves.
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Easing pressure on Turkey before all innocent American citizens and Turkish diplomatic staff are freed would reinforce Turkey's claims that the Trump administration "only cares about Christians" and that it is raising a storm over Mr. Brunson to please Mr. Trump's evangelical base.
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The Canadian government said on Wednesday that it would withdraw up to half of its diplomatic staff in Havana, as it disclosed that another employee had fallen ill with the mysterious symptoms that have affected dozens of Americans and Canadians stationed in Cuba.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration ordered Russia on Thursday to close its consulate in San Francisco and two diplomatic annexes, in New York and Washington, in a carefully calculated riposte to Russia's order that the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia.
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"Our diplomatic staff, structure and strategy have been so badly depleted in the last year, there's a real risk that the department gets remade under Pompeo to perform functions that are far outside of the realm of state-to-state relations," Bruen told VICE News.
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American Airlines pilots' union told its members not fly to Venezuela after the State Department warned about crime and unrest there and pulled its diplomatic staff from the country, threatening to further isolate the South American nation that is mired in a humanitarian crisis.
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Photo: Getty Following a report on Monday that claimed US spies working under diplomatic cover were the primary target of mysterious "sonic device" attacks on US embassy personnel in Havana, American authorities have expelled 15 members of Cuba's diplomatic staff from its embassy in Washington.
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Russia plans to expel at least 60 U.S. diplomatic staff in response to the actions announced today by the White House, the deputy chairman of the International Affairs Committee in the Russian parliament's upper chamber has said, the Moscow Times reports citing Russian state media.
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The State Department announced last week that it had ordered nonessential staff members, as well as dependents, to leave Cuba in the wake of a string of attacks on diplomatic staff members that have left some with injuries including hearing loss and traumatic brain injuries.
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The White House announced last week that President Donald Trump will sign draft legislation that imposes stricter sanctions on Russia, with Moscow firing back by ordering the U.S. to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties in retaliation.
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TORONTO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Canada has decided to cut the number of diplomatic staff in Cuba by up to half after another diplomat fell ill, the Canadian government said in a statement on Wednesday, bringing the total to 14 Canadians suffering mysterious symptoms since 2017.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties in retaliation for the bill.
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Photo: Desmond Boylan (AP)Researchers looking into bizarre reports of U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba and later China hearing troubling noises before developing symptoms very similar to brain trauma have pinned the most likely cause—and it's not some form of mysterious sonic device, as previously speculated.
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Ryabkov's comments came after Moscow ordered the United States on Friday to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties as a response to the new sanctions that were approved nearly unanimously by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE responded to those closures this week by warning the U.S. that the Kremlin may order that it cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by another 155 employees.
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WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties in retaliation for the bill.
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The American Foreign Service Association, the union representing the U.S. Foreign Service, said in a statement to The Hill on Friday that it believes the U.S. should maintain its diplomatic staff in Havana, and that the health attacks should not disrupt the Foreign Service's mission in Cuba.
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Instead of holding the annual U.N. summit in a different country each time, smaller-scale government negotiations could take place once a year in a set city where most countries keep high-level diplomatic staff who could represent them, such as New York, Washington or Bonn, he suggested.
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His use of the term "normal" is questionable from a civil liberties perspective but, Rutte's stance was broadly supported across the political spectrum, and international law allows host nations to declare a particular member of the diplomatic staff to be persona non grata at any time and for any reason.
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"Like the January 24 decision to withdraw all dependents and reduce embassy staff to a minimum, this decision reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy," the State Department said.
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In comments that were broadcast on Sunday on Russian television, Mr. Lavrov said that Mr. Tillerson had asked about the details of the reductions in American diplomatic staff members in Russia and that Mr. Lavrov had explained how it would work, according to a translation provided by The Associated Press.
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"Like the January 24 decision to withdraw all dependents and reduce embassy staff to a minimum, this decision reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy," according to Pompeo's statement.
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Photo: Desmond Boylan (AP)Since 2017, the baffling case of U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba and elsewhere who developed symptoms resembling brain trauma after allegedly hearing strange noises (sometimes called "Havana syndrome") have spawned plenty of theories of varying plausibility: A "covert sonic device," malfunctioning spy gear, weaponized microwave radiation, poisoning, and even psychogenic illness.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE on Thursday for ordering the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff by 755 people, his first public comments on the extraordinary move by Moscow in response to new sanctions legislation that Trump signed into law.
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Photo: APThe bizarre saga surrounding what officials have alleged was an attack on U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba using a "covert sonic device" has continued to get weirder, with the first comprehensive medical study of the affected personnel revealing that they indeed suffered symptoms resembling the effects of traumatic brain injuries that doctors simply cannot explain.
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The decision to extract all US diplomats "reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of US diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on US policy," Pompeo said in a statement early Tuesday, without elaborating on either the constraints or the policy options their removal allows for.
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Closing diplomatic posts Another possibility would be to close Saudi consulates or other diplomatic outposts, or reduce their diplomatic staff in the US, the way the US did with Russia in 2017 over the fallout from Moscow's election interference and in 2018 to express anger over Russia's poisoning on UK soil of a former Russian spy.
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In a move that overturns an earlier plan by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to expel 35 U.S. diplomatic staff from Moscow and close two facilities used by the U.S. embassy, the RIA news agency quoted Putin as saying he would consider the actions of President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, when deciding on further steps in Russia-U.
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Passage of the bill prompted Russia to retaliate by cutting US diplomatic missions by 755 people, which Moscow announced Friday -- an in-kind response to penalties that would be codified by the legislation, including the ejection of Russian diplomatic staff and closure of two Russian compounds in the US, for its alleged meddling in last year's election and aggression in Ukraine.
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British Ambassador Laurie Bristow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, where he was told that Britain must downsize its diplomatic staff in Russia to the same level that Russia has in the U.K. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the move was a further retaliatory measure for the U.K.'s expulsion of 23 Russian officials earlier this month.
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What's next: Vice President Mike Pence promised last month that the embassy would be moved to Jerusalem by 2019, but that could happen even sooner with a quick retrofit of the current consular offices in Jerusalem — perhaps even by Israel's Independence Day in April — even though most U.S. diplomatic staff in Israel would remain in Tel Aviv until a more permanent and secure complex could be constructed.
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But the vast expansion of funding for security and anti-AIDS efforts since the last time the department had a budget similar to what Mr. Tillerson has proposed suggests that, if he cannot cut them, he then must make significant cuts in diplomatic staff, which even before Mr. Tillerson's tenure had been steadily shrinking since 2010, said Patrick Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management in two previous administration.
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Sen. Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (R-Fla.) on Friday called for Cuban diplomats in the U.S. to be expelled after the Trump administration ordered over half of its diplomatic staff to leave Havana in the wake of mysterious health attacks.
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The basic argument is that the State Department, under Clinton's leadership, failed to provide adequate security for the US diplomatic staff at the consulate in Benghazi despite repeated pleas from the staff on the ground, and that after the attack, in order to cover that up, Clinton and others in the Obama administration tried to pretend the attack was spontaneous and thus that there was nothing they could have done to prevent it.
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