U.S. extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious

By using Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States prolonged embassy closures by using per week within the Center East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an al Qaeda danger that U.S. lawmakers mentioned was once essentially the most serious in years. The State Department stated 19 U.S. embassies and consulates can be closed through Saturday "out of an abundance of caution" and that quite a lot of them would were closed anyway for most of the week due to the Eid social gathering on the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The US at the beginning closed 21 U.S. diplomatic posts for the day on Sunday. …