{"id":68289,"date":"2024-08-03T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=68289"},"modified":"2024-08-03T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:08:53","slug":"sweden-shuts-lebanon-embassy-amid-fears-of-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/sweden-shuts-lebanon-embassy-amid-fears-of-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden shuts Lebanon embassy amid fears of escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders this week, blamed on Israel, have heightened regional tensions amid the Gaza war<br \/>\nSTOCKHOLM: Sweden said Saturday it was shutting its embassy in Beirut amid fears the war in Gaza could escalate into a region-wide conflict, after urging thousands of its citizens to leave Lebanon.<br \/>\nThe killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders this week, blamed on Israel, have heightened regional tensions amid the Gaza war.<br \/>\n\u201cThe foreign ministry has instructed its staff to leave Beirut and travel to Cyprus, and the foreign ministry is planning a temporary relocation of its embassy,\u201d Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Swedish Radio.<br \/>\nThe decision had been taken \u201cinitially for the month of August but may be extended depending on the security situation.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe ministry is monitoring developments closely,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAccording to the foreign ministry, as many as 10,000 Swedish nationals may have traveled to Lebanon this summer, defying a travel warning in place for the country since October 2023.<br \/>\n\u201cI urge Swedes in Lebanon to leave the country by whichever means possible, while they still can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders this week, blamed on Israel, have heightened regional tensions amid the Gaza war STOCKHOLM: Sweden said Saturday it was shutting its embassy in Beirut amid fears the war in Gaza could escalate into a region-wide conflict, after urging thousands of its citizens to leave Lebanon. The killing of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68308,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68289\/revisions\/68308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}