Consul, a Heights alum, unhurt in attack
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Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the US consul general in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jiddah, survived Monday&#39;s attack on the consulate without injury, but her driver was killed, the diplomat&#39;s brother said.
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WASHINGTON -- Two American employees of the US embassy in Israel and their families were slightly injured in the bombing at the Taba Hilton Hotel in Egypt, the State Department said Friday.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi  was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera  tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the  prime minister's party said.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said.
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Salim Sdiri of France, the long jumper who was struck in the back by a javelin last year at a Golden League meet in Rome, is still coping with the freak injury.
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The departing envoy had argued for giving locals more responsibility. Critics are pressing for a tougher approach.
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Costa Rica SAN JOSE -- A tour bus of American senior citizens defended themselves against a group of muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said yesterday. One of the tourists, a retired member of the military, put assailant Warner Segura in a head lock and broke his clavicle ...
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A lawmaker who defied Syria and voted against extending President Emile Lahoud's term survived an assassination attempt Friday when a parked, explosives-rigged vehicle blew up in Beirut.
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in the Saudi city of Jeddah, injuring at least one person, witnesses and security sources say. suggested that at least one of the blasts may not have been politically motivated.
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A U.S. diplomat was killed in a mortar  attack near Baghdad airport early Sunday, U.S. officials said.
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possibly caused by grenades, were an assassination attempt on her. She escaped with minor injuries. The attack was the latest in a series in impoverished Bangladesh and the second deadly blast this month against the Awami League.
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A bomb blast seriously wounded the Palestinian intelligence chief at his headquarters Saturday, in what security officials called an assassination attempt against a key ally of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.
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Yemeni security forces wounded and arrested a gunman after he opened fire at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa late on Monday, a government official said on Tuesday.
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Gunmen opened fire Monday at a U.S.  diplomatic car near the U.S. consulate in the Red Sea port city  of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia but there were no injuries, a Western  diplomat said.
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The governor of Baghdad escapes unhurt when a roadside bomb explodes near his convoy.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital