Ethiopia expels Norwegian envoys
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Six Norwegian diplomats are being expelled for "pampering" Eritrea and rebel groups, Ethiopia announces.
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul ordered the expulsion of a Briton and Irishman working for the EU and the UN, accusing them of threatening state security.
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Norway closed its embassy in the Afghan capital because of terror threats Sunday, nearly a month after a Norwegian journalist was among eight people killed in a suicide attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul.
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Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday.
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Russian foreign ministry to expel four British diplomats in the latest round of the ongoing diplomatic dispute with the UK.
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East Timor&#039;s Nobel prize-winning foreign minister resigned in protest Sunday after the country&#039;s ruling party ignored demands to fire the prime minister over accusations he provoked bloody unrest.
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Five Britons with diplomatic connections were missing feared kidnapped in Ethiopia last night amid security concerns.Comment
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Fiji&#39;s military regime has decided to expel New Zealand&#39;s top envoy in a &quot;grave act&quot; which will have serious consequences, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said Thursday.
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Ethiopia's foreign minister arrived in Somalia Saturday to mediate disagreements among the leaders of the nation's U.N.-backed transitional government, which is under pressure from an Islamic militia that the United States accuses of harboring terrorists.
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A senior United Nations official and another from the European Union left Afghanistan on Thursday after the government ordered their expulsion, accusing both of holding talks with the Taliban and for paying cash to the group.
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Sweden said on Friday it had expelled a foreign diplomat, identified by a newspaper as a Libyan who had spied on his countrymen living in the Nordic state. "I can confirm that a diplomat has been asked to leave the country and that he has left the country," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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Norway has temporarily closed its embassy in Latvia for security reasons, the country&#39;s foreign ministry said on Monday. But Oslo insisted the measure was not motivated by a new US terror warning for the Baltic state.
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Sweden has overturned an expulsion order against a former Egyptian terror suspect handed over to American agents and deported from Sweden in 2001, the Justice Department said Thursday.
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a  Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of  Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian troops withdrew from the southern city of Kismayu, leaving it in the hands of Somalia's interim government until African Union (AU) peacekeepers arrive, officials said on Friday.
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Fifteen foreigners including 10 French nationals have gone missing during a visit to a remote region of north-east Ethiopia, sources in the local expatriate community said on Friday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 27 Afghanistan formally expelled a senior U.N. official and the acting head of the European Union's mission there for allegedly meeting with Taliban militants. via Earth Times