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An American citizen working at the U.S. consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has reported suffering from "abnormal" sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday and China said it was investigating the incident.

The US embassy in China issued a health alert Wednesday after a US government employee experienced an "abnormal" sound and suffered a mild brain injury -- in an incident reminiscent of a mysterious illness that hit diplomats in Cuba.

The United States on Sunday indefinitely suspended handling all regular visa applications in Turkey, dramatically escalating a row after one of the mission's Turkish staffers was arrested.

Nicaraguan authorities have quarantined a US embassy staffer who came into contact with Ebola patients in Liberia, the health ministry said Monday, urging Washington to send a plane to evacuate him.

Some 75 staffers at the US embassy in Yemen have been evacuated aboard a US military plane because of a region-wide terror threat, a US official said today.

A US official confirmed on Tuesday that an American staffer at the US embassy in Moscow had been briefly detained, but refused to respond to allegations that the man was an undercover CIA agent.

An employee of the US embassy in New Delhi was attacked by bike-borne assailants while she was returning home at Sector 5, RK Puram. "There were two of them on a black Pulsar bike. They snatched my bag and pushed me. I fell down and before I could get up, they fled the spot," said Mointe, the victim.

An American citizen working at the U.S. consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has reported suffering from "abnormal" sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday and China said it was investigating the incident.

The US embassy in China issued a health alert Wednesday after a US government employee experienced an "abnormal" sound and suffered a mild brain injury -- in an incident reminiscent of a mysterious illness that hit diplomats in Cuba.

The United States on Sunday indefinitely suspended handling all regular visa applications in Turkey, dramatically escalating a row after one of the mission's Turkish staffers was arrested.

Nicaraguan authorities have quarantined a US embassy staffer who came into contact with Ebola patients in Liberia, the health ministry said Monday, urging Washington to send a plane to evacuate him.

Some 75 staffers at the US embassy in Yemen have been evacuated aboard a US military plane because of a region-wide terror threat, a US official said today.

A US official confirmed on Tuesday that an American staffer at the US embassy in Moscow had been briefly detained, but refused to respond to allegations that the man was an undercover CIA agent.

An employee of the US embassy in New Delhi was attacked by bike-borne assailants while she was returning home at Sector 5, RK Puram. "There were two of them on a black Pulsar bike. They snatched my bag and pushed me. I fell down and before I could get up, they fled the spot," said Mointe, the victim.