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Why doesn't the US just send Anne Sacoolas back to the UK? Here's what's at stake in this dispute over diplomatic immunity

  • Written by David Banks, Professorial Lecturer of International Politics, American University School of International Service
The parents of Harry Dunn spoke at a press conference in New York on October 14.AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

The U.S. and U.K. are engaged in an international dispute about the right to diplomatic immunity.

On August 27, 2019, Anne Sacoolas, wife of a U.S. diplomat resident in the U.K., allegedly struck and killed a British motorcyclist, Harry Dunn, when...

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