BREAKING NEWS: Russia to expel 60 U.S. diplomats
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Channel: SABC News · 2018 · News & Politics
Russia has ordered 60 U.S. diplomats out of the country by April the 5th. The foreign ministry says 58 diplomats in Moscow and two general consulate officials in Yekaterinburg are now persona non grata in a row over the poisoning of a former Russian double-agent in Britain. Its also going to close its consulate in Saint Petersburg. Washington earlier ordered the expulsion of 60 diplomats and shut down the Russian consulate general in Seattle. Russia says it will issue tit-for-tat responses to the other countries that have expelled diplomats in a mass show of support for Britain For more news, visit: sabcnews.com
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