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US Embassy #Japan: Potassium Iodide (KI) Available to USG...

No-one should take KI at this time The US Embassy Japan indicates that its staffing level has increased by 30 percent because employees from across the US government have volunteered to come help at...

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"Operation Tomodachi" #Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Update and Photos

U.S. Pacific Fleet forces continue to sustain efforts in support of Operation Tomodachi. As of March 25, there are 19 ships, 140 aircraft and 18,282 personnel in the area of operation. In the 12 days...

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Pakistan Says "Thank You" for USG Flood Assistance by Raiding US Embassy...

Last month, the Government of Pakistan made yet another disaster declaration after massive flooding hit its Sindh Province. The floods which started in August at the beginning of the monsoon months...

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US Embassy Thailand Braces for More Flooding In Central Bangkok

According to the US Ambassador to Thailand, Kristie Kenney, widespread flooding has now affected many of Thailand’s 76 provinces. More than 250 people have died and nearly 3 million people are...

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Delays in Haiti Reconstruction Connected to USAID Staffing Difficulties

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released its report on the post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti. The report notes that of the total funding of $411.6 allocated for reconstruction...

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Democratic Pakistan Bans BBC World News Over "Secret Pakistan" Documentary

Image via WikipediaAccording  to BBC News, Pakistani cable television operators have begun blocking the BBC’s international news TV channel, BBC World News. This move was apparently due to a critical...

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US Embassy Montenegro: Winter Emergency Assistance

U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro Sue K. Brown, front left, shakes hands with a U.S. Soldier as she and Montenegrin Minister of Defense Boro Vucinic greet Soldiers with the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade and...

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State/OIG: Bureau Overseeing Youth Exchange Program “Exaggerated” On-Site...

The same day that MSNBC’s Rock Center aired allegations that exchange students were sexually abused in youth programs overseen by the State Department, it also ran a companion piece featuring the State...

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US Embassy Egypt: PAO Larry Schwartz Thrown Under the Bus Over “Inappropriate...

There was that clip of a badly made obscure movie posted in YouTube which roiled the mob in Cairo on September 11. (AP on Sept. 12, said its search for those behind the film led to a Coptic Christian...

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After a Year of Serious Roars and Growls, State Dept Officially Retires...

And so it has come to this. Last year, the State Department was up in arms with the publication of Peter Van Buren’s book, We Meant Well, because well — as its Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of...

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Josh Rogin’s Exclusive: Benghazi ‘Scapegoat’ Raymond Maxwell Speaks Out —...

Whoops! Too late! Raymond Maxwell was placed on forced “administrative leave” after the State Department’s own internal investigation, conducted by an Administrative Review Board (ARB) led by former...

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It’s A Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s Not Superman On a Nantucket Boat Or How to...

— By Domani Spero Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Doha, New Delhi, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Amman, Jerusalem, and Bandar Seri Begawan from June 21 to July 2.  While overseas, he spoke about the...

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Philippine Super Typhoon Disaster – USG Assistance, Welfare/Whereabouts,...

– Domani Spero Via the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):  “Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made its first landfall in the early morning of 8 November in Guiuan,...

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Confirmations: Gregory B. Starr, James Walter Brewster, Jr., Philip S. Goldberg

– Domani Spero On November 14, the U.S. Senate confirmed the following nominations for the Department of State: Gregory B. Starr – to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Diplomatic Security) James...

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Snapshot: U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance to the Philippines

Via USAID – @theOFDA as of November 18, 2013: * * *

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US Embassy Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370, USS Pinckney to...

- Domani Spero On March 8, Malaysia Airlines released a statement that it is still unable to establish any contact or determine the whereabouts of flight MH370. Other details below: Subang ATC had lost...

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Major Earthquake Strikes Nepal, High Death Toll Expected (Contact Info For...

Posted: 9:54 am PDT   On April 25, a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, approximately 80 km from the capital Kathmandu. More than a thousand people have reportedly been killed with the number expected to go up....

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Nepal Earthquake: USAID/OFDA activates Disaster Assistance Response Team; how...

Posted: 12:30 am EDT   On April 25, the U.S. Government (USG) issued a disaster declaration for Nepal due to the effects of the earthquake. In response, USAID/OFDA immediately activated a Response...

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US Embassy Nepal: DART and Search and Rescue Teams Are On the Ground

Posted: 12:15 am EDT   At the DPB on April 27, the State Department said that Embassy Kathmandu remains open and the U.S. Embassy and the American Club continue to shelter U.S. citizens and their...

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US Embassy Nepal Now on Authorized Departure For Non-Emergency Staff and...

Posted: 2:30 am EDT   We’ve anticipated the evacuation of the family members of Embassy Kathmandu staff following the devastating Nepal earthquake of April 25.  On May 1st, the State Department issued...

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