No more casual: State Department imposes first-ever dress code on diplomats

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The State Department has added business formal dress code guidance to its internal policy manual for the first time, establishing department-wide standards for employee attire. The changes, implemented in recent days in the Foreign Affairs Manual — the department’s central repository for policies — … Read more

Iran warns US ground troops would be at risk as diplomats gather for peace talks

A top Iranian official has warned the U.S. against a ground invasion, saying its troops would be set “on fire,” as regional diplomats met Sunday in Pakistan in hopes of opening direct U.S.-Iran talks and ending the monthlong war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will widen its invasion of Lebanon, expanding the “existing … Read more

Costa Rica shutters its embassy in Cuba and orders diplomats to leave

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba’s communist government to pull its diplomats from San José.  “We have to clean out communists from the hemisphere,” Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared after the diplomatic rupture. The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. responded to the closure by alleging in a social … Read more