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Montenegro detains Russians, Montenegrins on suspicion of spying -report

Authorities in Montenegro have detained 38 people, mainly Russian nationals, on suspicion of espionage, Montenegrin daily Pobjeda reported on Thursday, citing unidentified sources.

Reuters

After funding tech research, lawmakers look at risk of theft

WASHINGTON — After passing legislation that could pump almost $250 billion into cutting-edge scientific research and semiconductor manufacturing, lawmakers are turning their attention to protecting the fruits of that spending from theft by America’s rivals, particularly China.

Tribune News Service

After funding tech research, lawmakers look at risk of theft - Roll Call

Congress is providing billions for science and tech research and lawmakers are now worried that foreign rivals could steal the results.

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Japan summons Russian ambassador after its diplomat is ‘brutally interrogated’ in Moscow

Russia says the diplomat was caught red-handed carrying out espionage activities

The Independent UK

Japan Protests Russia’s Expulsion of Official, Denies Spying

Japan protested to Russia on Tuesday over the detention of a Japanese consulate official on espionage allegations, denying the allegations and accusing Russian authorities of abusive interrogation. The official was detained on Sept. 22 and interrogated with his eyes covered, his hands and head pressed and immobilized, Japan's Foreign Ministry…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Japan protests Russia's expulsion of official, denies spying

Japan has protested to Russia over the detention of a Japanese consulate official on espionage allegations, denying the allegations and accusing Russian authorities of abusive interrogation

The Independent UK

Aussie ties out of the woods, raring to go

'Thais that bind: secret mission ends Aussie's torment," read the front page headline of The Australian on Nov 22, 2020. It was referring to Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic arrested in late 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard as she was about to leave Tehran over an espionage charge.…

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Don’t cheer for the Espionage Act being used against Donald Trump. It will backfire

Wishing to see Trump called to account need not make us champion a 100-year-old statute used to target whistleblowers

The Guardian - US

Biden will meet with the families of Russia detainees Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan

Joe Biden has said Griner and Whelan are wrongfully detained in Russia. Griner, a WNBA star, was convicted of marijuana possession, and Whelan, an ex-Marine, was convicted of espionage.

WEKU

NSA analyst jailed for life for selling US secrets to Soviets dies aged 80

Ronald Pelton, convicted of espionage in 1986, said he accepted money from America’s cold war enemy because he was desperate

The Guardian - US

3 Americans Sue Iran for Imprisoning Them on Espionage Charges

Three Americans who were jailed by Iran for more than a year and accused of being spies while hiking along the border with Iraq are suing their former captors, hoping to persuade a judge to award them damages for the torture they say they endured. The lawsuit is pursued by…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Something horribly failed.’ How did so many of America’s secrets end up at Mar-a-Lago?

WASHINGTON — At least 300 documents containing classified information left the White House with former President Donald Trump, an unprecedented situation that has led to the FBI investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.

Los Angeles Times

Families of Europeans Held in Iran Send Letter Criticizing EU Stance

Families of European nationals held in Iran have sent a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell demanding answers over the fate of their loved ones, which they feel are being neglected as the bloc tries to revive a nuclear deal. In recent years, Iran's Revolutionary Guards have…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians in Gaza

Gaza's ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians on Sunday, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the enclave's Hamas-run Interior Ministry said.

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Daily Mirror

Donald Trump resort raid prompted by FBI belief he had hid classified documents

Donald Trump now faces a criminal investigation for illegal removal of government records and possible charges of obstruction of justice and violation of the Espionage Act

Miami Herald

Cuba quietly releases from prison a Cuban American teacher convicted of espionage

The Cuban government has quietly commuted the sentence of Alina López Miyares, a Cuban American teacher in Miami who was sent to prison after she was accused of espionage in 2017, in an unusual gesture that might signal Havana’s willingness to remove a diplomatic roadblock to further engagement with the…

Salon

Don't celebrate the Espionage Act

It's ironic that a law mostly used to suppress whistleblowers may be turned on Trump. But it's still a bad idea

The Independent UK

2 Russians, 1 Ukrainian face espionage charges in Albania

An Albanian court has ordered two Russians and a Ukrainian to remain in custody while authorities conduct an espionage investigation into the suspects’ activities at a former military weapons manufacturing plant

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The Independent UK

Rudy Giuliani gives new excuse for Trump holding onto classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Mr Giuliani falsely claims that the Espionage Act does not punish improper removal of sensitive documents from secure facilities

Salon

U.S. v. Donald Trump: What comes next?

We are closer than ever to a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. That will be a massive test for America.

Al Jazeera

Suspected Chinese hackers spied on gov’ts, NGOs, media: Report

Cybersecurity firm says Amnesty International and Taiwan’s ruling party among organisations targeted in campaign.

France 24

Mali demands emergency UN meeting over French 'acts of aggression'

Mali calls for an emergency UN Security Council meeting over alleged French “acts of aggression”. Bamako accuses Paris of espionage and supporting jihadists as French troops, who had been in the country on an anti-terror mission, pull out. Also, a week ahead of the tightest general election Angola has faced…

Reuters

EU parliament to help probe 'inexcusable' spying on Greek member

The European Parliament will cooperate with Greek authorities to investigate "intolerable and inexcusable" state spying on a Greek EU lawmaker, the spokesman for the head of the chamber said of the bloc's latest espionage scandal.

The Guardian - UK

Rather than sink Donald Trump, the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid could save him

Being investigated under the Espionage Act would end most people’s political aspirations. For the martyr-in-chief, this could be just the boost he needs, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Tribune News Service

Judge rejects plea agreements from ex-Navy engineer, wife in nuclear submarine espionage case

BALTIMORE — A federal judge rejected Tuesday the government’s proposed prison sentences, saying they were too lenient, for former Annapolis-based Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, six months after they pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to sell classified nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government.

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