{"id":845427,"date":"2026-08-04T05:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845427\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:52:44","slug":"u-s-to-close-consulates-in-canada-japan-and-indonesia-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845427\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to close consulates in Canada, Japan and Indonesia, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing of America\u2019s global diplomatic footprint, according to people familiar with the notice.<\/p>\n<p>In the notice \u200bsent to some congressional committees late last week, the State Department said it plans to close \u200cits posts \u200cin St. George\u2019s, Grenada; Nagoya, Japan; Medan, Indonesia; Douala, Cameroon; and Winnipeg, Canada. \u200bThe people familiar with the notice spoke on the condition of anonymity because the notice was not public.<\/p>\n<p>The expected closures, which have not been previously reported, represent a rare example of the U.S. closing multiple foreign \u2060missions in a downsizing that is not tied to a particular geopolitical event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,77104,48,294327,6110,2454,235753,44,178,22073],"class_list":["post-845427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-cameroon","tag-canada","tag-grenada","tag-indonesia","tag-japan","tag-nagoya","tag-news","tag-u-s","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}