Saudi Arabia along with three Arab Countries Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

The Middle East gets a severe blow today as Saudi Arabia sever its diplomatic relations with an important Arab and Islamic country of Middle East. Egypt, UAE and Bahrain have also followed the suit.

Saudi Arabia has ejected the Qatari diplomat and all land, air and sea traffic routes have been cut off too while accusing Qatar for backing terror and threatening regional stability.

And if that was not all - Qatar has also been also expelled from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.

The severing of ties is being seen by analysts as region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years.

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Netanyahu speech an insult to US Intelligence, says Nancy Pelosi

The recent speech of Israeli prime minister has drawn a mixed reaction from the people and people-who-matter in the USA. 

A visibly disturbed Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is reported to have dismissed a speech Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as full of “condescension” and an “insult to the intelligence of the United States.”

The California Democrat was visibly upset during Netanyahu’s address on the House floor, in which the Israeli leader urged Congress to take a more aggressive line against Iran as part of ongoing negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Pelosi and other congressional Democrats were critical of the brash language Netanyahu used to describe those negotiations.

Read more at POLITICO

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Russia reveals CIA's Moscow station chief identity

In what is being seen as a breach of diplomatic protocol, Russia has disclosed the name of the Moscow's CIA station chief identity.

It follows Moscow's decision to expel US diplomat Ryan Fogle, who was accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy.

Mr Fogle, a purported CIA agent, was arrested on Tuesday while wearing a blond wig and was briefly detained. Russia said Mr Fogle was caught while trying to recruit an FSB counter-terrorism agent in the Caucasus.

Russia says it warned the CIA Moscow station chief in 2011 to stop the "provocative" recruitment of spies.

Mr Fogle is said to have been a third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow. He has been declared "persona non grata" for what the Russian foreign ministry called "provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War".

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Clinton's China Visit Produces No Breakthrough

Talks between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese leaders Wednesday failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and how to resolve Beijing’s territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors in the South China Sea.

Clinton, who met President Hu Jintao, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and other top officials but not leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, wants China to stop backing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and has been pushing for it to be more flexible in lowering tensions over the potentially oil-rich South China Seas.

But comments from Clinton and Yang showed that the countries remain deeply divided on those issues, although both maintained they are committed to working together despite their differences.

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We don’t understand cricket but we like cricket diplomacy: US State Department

Cricket might sound and look like Greek to the Americans, but they are in full support of the cricket diplomacy between archrivals India and Pakistan. 

"We're for cricket. We don't understand it, but we like it," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said replying to a query on resumption of cricket ties between India and Pakistan. The United States shares the interest of people in India and Pakistan in seeing these two countries continuing to improve their relationship, she said on Monday. 

"We have been supportive in all of our diplomatic encounters at every level with the Indian side, with the Pakistani side in some of the progress that they've made. They've made considerable progress on the economic side," Nuland said. 

Read more: The Nation

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Iran promises better protection for diplomats

[ Dawn News ] 7 Dec

In a bid to "normalize" diplomatic relations between Iran and Britain,  Iran promised to provide better protection in future for diplomats and said there would be no repeat of the storming of the British embassy last week, which has damaged its already strained ties with Europe.

Britain shut its embassy, withdrew its diplomats and expelled Iranian diplomats from London after the attack, which saw protesters storm its embassy and a residential compound, smashing buildings and burning offices.

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