Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says US president’s comments encouraging. United States President Joe Biden has said he is “considering” a request by Australia to end the decade-long push to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the release of troves of classified documents. Australia’s parliament in February passed a motion…
Islamabad said the comments undermine peace and impede the prospect of constructive engagement. Pakistan has denounced “provocative remarks” made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who said in an interview that India would enter Pakistan to kill anyone who escapes over its border after trying to carry out attacks. Singh’s…
Islamabad, Pakistan — Since June 2021, Pakistan has tracked and accused Indian intelligence agencies of multiple attempts — some successful — at assassinating individuals New Delhi views as terrorists sheltered by Islamabad. On Thursday, British newspaper The Guardian backed those claims, three months after Pakistan’s government formally levelled similar allegations against…
Baek Won-soon was detained in Vladivostok earlier this year – the latest foreign national to be imprisoned in Russia. Russia has detained a South Korean in the country’s east, accusing him of spying. Citing the authorities, the Russian state-run TASS news agency identified the man as Baek Won-soon and said…
Revised law requires government agencies to protect pieces of information ‘that are not state secrets but will cause certain adverse effects if leaked,’ state media says. Chinese lawmakers have expanded Beijing’s state secrets law for the first time since 2010, widening the scope of restricted sensitive information to “work secrets”,…
Yang has been detained for five years on charges of espionage that he and Australia have rejected. Australian writer Yang Hengjun, who was detained in China on espionage charges in 2019, has been handed a suspended death sentence by a court in Beijing. The terms of the sentence mean Yang’s…
Pyongyang is thought to use the money stolen in cyber-heists to fund its illegal weapons programmes. South Korea has imposed sanctions on North Korea’s spy chief and seven other North Koreans for alleged illicit cyber activities, which are believed to fund their country’s nuclear weapons and conventional missile programmes. Ri…
The Spanish paper El Pais reports that the US quietly withdrew two staff workers at the request of Spain’s government. Spain has ejected two staff workers at the United States embassy, following allegations that they attempted to bribe Spanish intelligence officers in exchange for secrets. Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles…
Washington says ‘no higher priority’ than effort to secure release from Russia of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. The United States has said Moscow rejected what it said was a “substantial” proposal to secure the freedom of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan who…
Former ambassador to Bolivia charged for allegedly collaborating with Cuban intelligence services over several decades. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged a former US ambassador to Bolivia for allegedly working with Cuban intelligence services as an undercover agent for several decades. In court papers unsealed on Monday,…
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