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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A group of suspected Haitian gang members fired this week on American forces protecting the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, a spokesman said Saturday, in an incident that highlighted the tense security situation in the Caribbean nation. Capt. Steven J. Keenan, a spokesman for the U.S. Marines, wrote in an email that the shooting, which came to light this weekend, happened Thursday, adding that the Marines returned fire. No Marines were hurt in the attack.

The US Embassy in London was plunged into lockdown and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after a bag containing wires and an iPad was left outside, a court heard. Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making a bomb hoax outside the embassy in Nine Elms last November 22. The court was told the defendant had denied intending to cause alarm, claiming it was just a form of sophisticated graffiti art.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his security forces prevented a false flag operation to plant explosives at the United States Embassy in the capital Caracas in order to heighten tensions with Washington amid a US military build-up off the coast of the Latin American country. In a televised interview late on Monday, Maduro said two reliable sources, one domestic and one international, had informed

The man, who is in his late 20s, is accused of having supplied information on embassy activities between March 2024 and November 20, the date of his arrest, according to the charge sheet. In return, he was paid in euros and bitcoin. He is accused of having supplied either the Russians or the Iranians -- or both -- with the contact details of diplomats, embassy staff and their families.

The U.S. has decided to partially evacuate its embassy in Iraq, moving nonessential staff amid rising tensions with Iran, indicating potential escalating conflict.