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Last-ditch talks are held between British and French authorities as local authorities in the ports of Calais and Boulogne warn of a "disaster" if the French government goes ahead with its plan to "clog up" the English Channel and disrupt the trade and sailing of British vessels in French ports. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the UK could consider "formal action" under trade agreements.
2021-10-30

France seizes a British trawler fishing inside its territorial waters without a licence, and fines another vessel amid tensions over post-Brexit fishing rights in the English Channel. The trawler is being held at the Port of Le Havre. The French government also says that, beginning November 2, it will impose extra customs checks on British goods entering France. French Seas Minister Annick Girardin says that "It's not war, but it is a fight".
2021-10-28

The British and American governments warn their citizens to leave Afghanistan "immediately" amid the Taliban advance and a worsening security situation in the country.
2021-08-7

South Korea summons the Japanese ambassador following remarks by a Japanese senior official mocking South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Moon had hinted at a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, to which the official responded that it was not a possibility and that Moon was "masturbating". South Korea states that the remarks were highly inappropriate, but the Government of Japan said that the remarks were not directed at Moon.
2021-07-17

U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Michael A. Hammer announces that the U.S. government will assist in training Congolese forces and with intelligence sharing.
2021-07-1

Nicolás Maduro's government declares European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa a "persona non grata" and gives her 72 hours to leave the country following new sanctions by the EU against 19 Venezuelan officials.
2021-02-24

British authorities charge two men for their alleged involvement in a Novichok poisoning earlier in 2018, claiming the men are agents of the GRU.
2018-09-5

Russian frigate "Yaroslav Mudry" passes through the English Channel, and is shadowed by Royal Navy coastal defence ship HMS "St Albans".
2018-04-20

Along with 15 other international envoys, Cuban diplomat Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez presents his credentials to U.S. President Barack Obama, becoming the island's first ambassador to the United States since 1961. The Obama Administration has yet to name an ambassador to Cuba.
2015-09-17

The British and Irish governments call in their Israeli ambassadors over the use of fake passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
2010-02-18