“Embassies” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Haiti says his embassy is doing its best but has no way to check on the 40,000 or more Americans estimated to be in the country when a devastating earthquake struck. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli Foreign Ministry says an explosive charge has gone off near a convoy of cars from the Israeli Embassy in Jordan in an apparent attempt to harm diplomats. No one was hurt. The Israeli statement did not say if the ambassador was in the convoy. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel: Explosive charge detonated near convoy from Israeli Embassy in Jordan; no one hurt. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea should follow in the footsteps of Russia and China and open up its economic and political systems to improve conditions for its people, President Barack Obama’s point man for human rights in the country said Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be Christmas Day bomber boarded his flight in Amsterdam to frigid Detroit with no coat — perhaps the final warning sign that went unnoticed leading up to what could have been a catastrophic terrorist attack, lawmakers were told. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials laid out a massive military response to the Haiti earthquake Wednesday, saying that ships, helicopters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit were either on the way or likely to begin moving soon. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians are frantically struggling to save those injured in this week’s earthquake while hoping foreign governments will quickly begin sending in aid. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers searched collapsed buildings as officials feared the death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers searched collapsed buildings as officials feared the death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared hundreds of thousands may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)

A look at key events surrounding the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. President Barack Obama announced steps Thursday aimed at avoiding the security lapses that allowed the alleged attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on board with explosives. (more)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan has complained that its diplomats are being harassed and detained at checkpoints as they travel to development projects, illustrating heightened tensions between the allies as America expands its presence here. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Interim President Roberto Micheletti responded harshly Wednesday to U.S. suggestions that he resign before a new president takes office Jan 27. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — U.S. State Department diplomat Craig Kelly returned to Honduras on Tuesday to make his fourth attempt in five months to reunite leaders in this bitterly divided nation. (more)

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Yemen says it has reopened after a two-day closure prompted by a terrorist threat. (more)

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — US embassy says it is reopening in Yemen. (more)

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Security forces killed two suspected al-Qaida militants in clashes outside the Yemeni capital on Monday, officials said, as the French and Czech embassies closed their doors to the public, joining their U.S. and British counterparts, in response to threats of attack by the terror group’s offshoot here. (more)