Posts Tagged ‘recalls’

UK recalls ambassador to Syria for consultations (AP)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, the U.S. embassy building is seen in Damascus, Syria. The Obama administration has closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)AP – Britain has recalled its ambassador from Syria for consultations on the escalating violence in the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday. The decision was announced after the U.S. said it has closed its embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria.


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France recalls Syria ambassador, violence grows (AP)

Pro-Syrian regime protesters, hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad and shout slogans against the Arab League, as they gather outside the Syrian foreign ministry where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem helds a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday Nov. 14, 2011. Syria's foreign minister accused Arab states on Monday of conspiring against Damascus after the Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership over the government's deadly crackdown on an eight month-old uprising. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP – France recalled its ambassador to Damascus on Wednesday as Syrian President Bashar Assad came under increasing pressure from home and abroad, with army defectors killing at least eight soldiers in a daring attack on the military.


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Piazza recalls emotional HR 10 years later

It is forever a moment in Mike Piazza’s Mets career. People still stop the former catcher on the street to talk about the home run. Piazza hit 427 homers over 16 seasons, but none resonates more than his shot off Braves reliever Steve Karsay on Sept. 21, 2001, during the first professional sports game played in New York after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Egypt recalls ambassador to Israel over ambush (AP)

Egyptians shout anti-Israeli slogans as they wave national flags during a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 after Thursday's ambush targeting Israelis near the border between the two countries. Anger rose after Egyptian officials said Thursday's gunbattles killed five Egyptian security personnel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abou Zaid)AP – Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of at least three Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil.


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UK PM recalls Parliament for London riot crisis (AP)

British police officers charge rioters, during riots in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Youths set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London — which will host next summer's Olympic Games — and clashed with police in the nation's central city of Birmingham, as authorities struggled to halt groups of rampaging young people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP – British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday and nearly tripled the number of police on the streets after three days of rioting in London blossomed into a full-blown political crisis.


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UK PM recalls Parliament for London rioting crisis (AP)

British police officers charge rioters, during riots in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Youths set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London — which will host next summer's Olympic Games — and clashed with police in the nation's central city of Birmingham, as authorities struggled to halt groups of rampaging young people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP – British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday and tripled the number of police on the streets of London to deal with the crisis touched off by three days of rioting.


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Somali man recalls horrors of fleeing famine (AP)

This July 28, 2011 photo shows Somali refugee Ahmedhashim Mawlid Abdi with his family in Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Famine and violence in Somalia pushed Abdi, a 40-year-old father of seven, to flee his country. On his way to the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, his pregnant wife was raped in his presence and he lost a 7-year-old son to hunger, disease and exhaustion. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)AP – When al-Qaida-linked militants learned that Ahmedhashim Mawlid Abdi and his family were planning to flee Somalia’s famine, they threw the 40-year-old father of seven in jail for two days.


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