All posts tagged "embassy"

  • Mourners visit a memorial for former South Korean President Kim Young-sam inside the Korean American Association of Greater New York Sunday. (Korea Times)
    S. Korean Embassy in DC opens memorial altar for late ex-President Kim

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Embassy in Washington began accepting mourners of late former President Kim Young-sam on Monday after establishing a memorial altar at the embassy building. Amb. Ahn Ho-young and the embassy staff paid their...

    • Posted November 23, 2015
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  • A flag flies over the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the site in the capital, Tripoli. in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, April 13, 2015. There were no casualties in the attack, which was claimed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)
    Foreign ministry in trouble for allegedly lying after embassy attack

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s foreign ministry came under criticism Tuesday for allegedly lying about the whereabouts of the country’s ambassador to Libya during a weekend attack on the local embassy. Hours after the shooting...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • A flag flies over the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the site in the capital, Tripoli. in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, April 13, 2015. There were no casualties in the attack, which was claimed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)
    2 dead in IS shooting at S. Korean Embassy in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Gunmen opened fire early Sunday at the local guards of the South Korean Embassy in the Libyan capital, killing one of them as well as a civilian who was in the area, a...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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