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Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: November 21, 2021 at 11:55PM While he enabled business deals worth billions of dollars, he also hosted lavish parties, led conga lines through his embassy and dated Elizabeth Taylor.

Author: BY VIVIAN YEE - Publish Date: October 31, 2021 at 01:53AM With a few stray comments from a minor minister, Lebanon once again found itself caught in the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, underscoring just how vulnerable it is to the whims of its more powerful neighbors.

Author: BY SAFAK TIMUR AND CARLOTTA GALL - Publish Date: October 24, 2021 at 12:57AM The move follows a statement from the envoys demanding the release of a prominent philanthropist jailed since 2017.

Author: BY RICK GLADSTONE - Publish Date: September 26, 2021 at 11:58PM On the final day of the General Assembly’s most important annual gathering, no one is expected to speak for Myanmar, but the envoy of Afghanistan’s ousted government may yet take the podium.

Author: BY JULIAN E. BARNES AND LARA JAKES - Publish Date: September 24, 2021 at 11:57PM Frustration is growing about the treatment of an increasing number of intelligence officers and diplomats with symptoms of so-called Havana syndrome.

Author: BY KATIE BENNER - Publish Date: July 25, 2021 at 01:24AM The arrests were part of a Trump-era initiative aimed at curbing Beijing’s efforts to steal intellectual property, corporate secrets, and military intelligence.

Author: BY THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, ERIC SCHMITT AND HELENE COOPER - Publish Date: June 29, 2021 at 11:51PM With the main allied military air base about to close, negotiations are underway with Turkey about continuing to secure the civilian airport as the Taliban advance across the country.

Author: BY THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF AND FATIMA FAIZI - Publish Date: June 18, 2021 at 02:10AM An official notice said that more than 115 people associated with the embassy had been infected, and that despite access to vaccines, most of those stricken were un- or only partially vaccinated.

Author: BY ANNIE KARNI - Publish Date: May 27, 2021 at 08:17AM The president has also selected Thomas R. Nides, Rahm Emanuel and Ken Salazar for posts, according to people familiar with the process.

Author: BY MICHAEL CROWLEY - Publish Date: May 12, 2021 at 06:45AM The president came to office seeing little opportunity to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He may now be forced to get more involved.

Author: BY REUTERS - Publish Date: April 8, 2021 at 08:26AM Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar’s ambassador to Britain, said he was locked out of the embassy in London on Wednesday, apparently for criticizing the Burmese military, which staged a coup in February.

Author: BY STEPHEN CASTLE - Publish Date: April 8, 2021 at 06:19AM After Myanmar’s military seized power, its ambassador to Britain had called for the release of political leaders who were detained in the coup.

Author: BY DECLAN WALSH, ERIC SCHMITT, SIMON MARKS AND RONEN BERGMAN - Publish Date: February 15, 2021 at 03:00PM Fifteen people arrested in Ethiopia were part of what American and Israeli officials said was a foiled Iranian plot against diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.

Author: BY HELENE COOPER - Publish Date: December 24, 2020 at 09:05AM The administration and military officials blame Tehran for recent rocket attacks in Iraq, adding to the growing tensions between the United States and Iran.

Author: BY DAMIEN CAVE AND CHRIS BUCKLEY - Publish Date: September 8, 2020 at 09:46AM The forced departures highlight souring relations between the two countries and Beijing’s increasingly heavy-handed tactics to limit independent journalism.

Author: BY MARIA ABI-HABIB AND BEN HUBBARD - Publish Date: August 11, 2020 at 09:17AM An American contractor spotted and reported the potential danger at least four years ago, but U.S. officials denied they were aware of the findings until last week, after the blast.

Author: BY MUJIB MASHAL AND LARA JAKES - Publish Date: March 2, 2020 at 07:46AM Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born veteran American diplomat, earned the trust of the militants, if not of Afghan officials.

Author: BY LARA JAKES - Publish Date: February 1, 2020 at 08:16AM On a July 25 telephone call with the president of Ukraine, President Trump described Ambassador Yovanovitch as “bad news” and said, ominously, “She’s going to go through some things.”

Author: BY EDWARD WONG - Publish Date: December 5, 2019 at 07:05AM The two nations agreed to exchange ambassadors for the first time in 23 years. But the State Department is keeping Sudan on a list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Author: BY MICHELLE COTTLE - Publish Date: November 22, 2019 at 08:08AM After two weeks of public testimony, Americans should have a good sense of why an impeachment inquiry was needed.