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UK Discloses Alleged Crimes, Including Rape, By Foreign Diplomats
People with diplomatic immunity in the UK allegedly committed offences including sexual assault, indecent exposure and child cruelty last year, a British government minister said on Thursday.
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Can Diplomatic Package Be Checked? Top Court Over Kerala Gold Smuggling Case
Supreme Court on Tuesday sought to know from the Centre whether diplomatic baggage can be subjected to scanning in India or they enjoy immunity from search.
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Miami Cops Drag Singer Out Of Car After She Claims Diplomatic Immunity
Cecilia Selina Mercado was handcuffed and one of the officers told the singer if she only "complied," things would not have escalated.
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Explained: Impact Of Canada Withdrawing 41 Diplomats From India
Canada today withdrew 41 diplomats from India with a looming threat of New Delhi revoking their immunity amid the ongoing row over the killing of a Khalistani terrorist. Canada said that losing immunity would have put the officials at risk.
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Canada Withdraws 41 Diplomats From India Amid Huge Diplomatic Row
Canada announced Thursday it had been forced to repatriate 41 of its 62 diplomats based in India after New Delhi threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity, as tensions rise between the two countries.
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Vladimir Putin Gets Diplomatic Immunity In South Africa for BRICS Summit
South African government has granted diplomatic immunity to all international participants, including Russia President Vladamir Putin and other Russian officials, at BRICS-related events to be held in the country, local media reported.
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Russia Wants To Prosecute US Diplomats For Stealing Backpack
Russia on Friday called on the US embassy in Moscow to waive the diplomatic immunity of three of its staff, saying they were suspected of stealing.
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US Denies Hong Kong Envoys With COVID-19 Invoked Diplomatic Immunity
The United States on Tuesday accused Chinese state media of publishing "disinformation" about its diplomats in Hong Kong as it denied its staff invoked immunity to avoid isolating after positive coronavirus tests.
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Brazil Scrambles For India-Made Vaccines To Jumpstart Inoculations
Brazil made a diplomatic push on Monday to guarantee an Indian-made shipment of British drugmaker AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, hoping to avoid export restrictions that could delay immunizations during the world's second-deadliest outbreak.
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US Envoy's Wife Kills Teen In UK Car Crash, Claims Immunity And Flees
An American woman, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, has fled the United Kingdom after killing a British teenager in a wrong-way collision, authorities said Saturday. Harry Dunn died after the woman allegedly collided with Dunn's motorcycle near the Royal Air Force Croughton station, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force.
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China Says Detained Ex-Canadian Diplomat Has No Diplomatic Immunity
Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, being held in China on suspicion of endangering national security, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, China's foreign ministry said on Monday.
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How Ecuador, Russia Planned To Help Julian Assange Escape From UK
Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document seen by Reuters.
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Australian Divers Given Diplomatic Immunity In Thai Cave Rescue: Report
Two Australian divers who helped extract the young football team trapped in a Thai cave obtained diplomatic immunity before the rescue in case it failed, national broadcaster ABC reported Monday.
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US Diplomat Involved In Fatal Car Accident Allowed To Leave Pakistan
A US diplomat who was involved in a fatal traffic accident has left Pakistan, a US State Department spokesperson said on Monday, two days after the diplomat reportedly was barred from leaving the South Asian country.
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US Diplomat Killed Biker In Pakistan, Really Adding To Bilateral Tensions
Pakistan has barred an American diplomat from leaving the country, the latest escalation in a tense bilateral dispute stemming from a fatal traffic incident in early April. The diplomat, a U.S. military attache, allegedly ran a red light while driving an SUV in the capital and hit a motorcycle, killing the driver and injuring a passenger.
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UK Discloses Alleged Crimes, Including Rape, By Foreign Diplomats
People with diplomatic immunity in the UK allegedly committed offences including sexual assault, indecent exposure and child cruelty last year, a British government minister said on Thursday.
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Can Diplomatic Package Be Checked? Top Court Over Kerala Gold Smuggling Case
Supreme Court on Tuesday sought to know from the Centre whether diplomatic baggage can be subjected to scanning in India or they enjoy immunity from search.
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Miami Cops Drag Singer Out Of Car After She Claims Diplomatic Immunity
Cecilia Selina Mercado was handcuffed and one of the officers told the singer if she only "complied," things would not have escalated.
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Explained: Impact Of Canada Withdrawing 41 Diplomats From India
Canada today withdrew 41 diplomats from India with a looming threat of New Delhi revoking their immunity amid the ongoing row over the killing of a Khalistani terrorist. Canada said that losing immunity would have put the officials at risk.
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Canada Withdraws 41 Diplomats From India Amid Huge Diplomatic Row
Canada announced Thursday it had been forced to repatriate 41 of its 62 diplomats based in India after New Delhi threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity, as tensions rise between the two countries.
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Vladimir Putin Gets Diplomatic Immunity In South Africa for BRICS Summit
South African government has granted diplomatic immunity to all international participants, including Russia President Vladamir Putin and other Russian officials, at BRICS-related events to be held in the country, local media reported.
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Russia Wants To Prosecute US Diplomats For Stealing Backpack
Russia on Friday called on the US embassy in Moscow to waive the diplomatic immunity of three of its staff, saying they were suspected of stealing.
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US Denies Hong Kong Envoys With COVID-19 Invoked Diplomatic Immunity
The United States on Tuesday accused Chinese state media of publishing "disinformation" about its diplomats in Hong Kong as it denied its staff invoked immunity to avoid isolating after positive coronavirus tests.
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Brazil Scrambles For India-Made Vaccines To Jumpstart Inoculations
Brazil made a diplomatic push on Monday to guarantee an Indian-made shipment of British drugmaker AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, hoping to avoid export restrictions that could delay immunizations during the world's second-deadliest outbreak.
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US Envoy's Wife Kills Teen In UK Car Crash, Claims Immunity And Flees
An American woman, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, has fled the United Kingdom after killing a British teenager in a wrong-way collision, authorities said Saturday. Harry Dunn died after the woman allegedly collided with Dunn's motorcycle near the Royal Air Force Croughton station, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force.
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China Says Detained Ex-Canadian Diplomat Has No Diplomatic Immunity
Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, being held in China on suspicion of endangering national security, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, China's foreign ministry said on Monday.
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How Ecuador, Russia Planned To Help Julian Assange Escape From UK
Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document seen by Reuters.
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Australian Divers Given Diplomatic Immunity In Thai Cave Rescue: Report
Two Australian divers who helped extract the young football team trapped in a Thai cave obtained diplomatic immunity before the rescue in case it failed, national broadcaster ABC reported Monday.
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US Diplomat Involved In Fatal Car Accident Allowed To Leave Pakistan
A US diplomat who was involved in a fatal traffic accident has left Pakistan, a US State Department spokesperson said on Monday, two days after the diplomat reportedly was barred from leaving the South Asian country.
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US Diplomat Killed Biker In Pakistan, Really Adding To Bilateral Tensions
Pakistan has barred an American diplomat from leaving the country, the latest escalation in a tense bilateral dispute stemming from a fatal traffic incident in early April. The diplomat, a U.S. military attache, allegedly ran a red light while driving an SUV in the capital and hit a motorcycle, killing the driver and injuring a passenger.
