2013 Event Britain, France and Germany close embassies in Yemen; Canada closes its embassy in Bangladesh; the U.S. closes 22 embassies in the Middle East and North America due to intelligence of an impending Al-Qaeda attack 2011 Event North Korea places requests with its worldwide embassies to appeal for aid to feed its population 2010 Event Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure 1998 Event U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200 1990 Event Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City 1968 Event Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
