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Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich tells Bloomberg This Weekend how his reporting experience and knowledge of Russia helped him understand that his 2023 arrest on false espionage charges was likely intended to make him part of a prisoner exchange. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Gershkovich discusses his 16 months in Russian prisons, his memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land and what Stephen Hubbard’s release says about Moscow’s use of detained Americans in its dealings with Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)

A Ukrainian man was arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia - one of several such cases in Germany this year.

China has lodged a formal representation with the UK after British border authorities subjected Chinese citizens to extended questioning and seizures of personal electronic devices, including mobile phones. According to a statement from China’s embassy in Britain, multiple Chinese nationals – including trade delegates, tourists and people visiting relatives – have experienced long delays, as well as questioning by Border Force officers and confiscation of phones and other devices. The embassy...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Officials of the Japanese Embassy in Russia have been unable to meet with a Japanese newspaper reporter detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of espionage. An embassy official did not disclose why the meeting did not take place but said, "We will continue to urge the Russian side to arrange consular access to the reporter as soon as possible." Accordin...

Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday denied that the government has been involved in espionage activities in Russia, in response to Moscow's detention of a Japanese reporter on suspicion of espionage. "We'll convey our position," Takaichi told reporters at her office in Tokyo after Russian authorities said Tuesday that a reporter for the Hokkaido S...

Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--Russia's detention of a Japanese reporter in Sakhalin in the country's Far East came amid tensions between the two countries that heightened following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The news came on Tuesday when Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, said that a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in northern Japan was detained on suspicion of espiona...

A Japanese journalist has been detained in Russia on suspicion of spying for Japanese intelligence.

Saudi OpenAI employee was arrested over allegations he planted a hidden device to record sensitive company conversations

Tokyo, Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government scrambled to gather information Wednesday following the news of Russia's detention of a Japanese reporter on suspicion of espionage, a move likely to further strain the two countries' relations that have already soured due to Japan's sanctions on Russia over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The detention of the male reporter for Hokkaido Shi...

The Hokkaido Shimbun journalist is accused of collecting information on Moscow's defence capabilities for Tokyo.

Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Tuesday that it has detained a male reporter for Hokkaido Shimbun Press, a newspaper publisher in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, on suspicion of espionage. The FSB claims that he was gathering information on mobilized soldiers and others at the direction of a Japanese intelligence agency. The rep...

⁠Russia’s FSB security agency said on ⁠Tuesday it had detained a Japanese journalist ⁠for alleged espionage, and Moscow’s foreign ministry said it regretted that Tokyo was using correspondents to carry out spying. In a statement on its website, the FSB said the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper journalist was detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region on the day before he planned to leave Russia. It did ‌not specify when this was. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a statement...

Suspect was arrested on Russia's far-eastern Sakhalin Island before being transferred to Moscow, says Russia's FSB.

A Philippine bill expanding the country’s espionage law to cover peacetime activities is raising concerns among journalists and legal experts, who warn that its broad provisions could stifle free expression and restrict public scrutiny of national issues. The House of Representatives approved the measure on September 17, paving the way for a broader definition of espionage than under the current law, which dates to 1941 and focuses on wartime spying. The Senate is considering a similar...

Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon said he was 90 per cent certain that China already had spies inside both US artificial intelligence (AI) companies, without providing evidence. Coxon made the allegation in an interview with entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, arguing that China could steal advances from leading US AI labs and quickly close any technological gap. “Right now, if we just stopped, they would try and catch up. But I think one really important thing...

A court on Wednesday ordered the former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service August Hanning to remain in pretrial detention after his arrest on suspicion of espionage and treason, along with a former deputy who allegedly supplied him with secret files. Here's what we know about one of the biggest security breaches in German history.

Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained Tuesday on suspicion of treason and espionage after prosecutors accused him of paying for secret intelligence documents and using them to prepare an analysis for a foreign intelligence service, in a case that could strain Berlin’s ties with allied spy agencies.

A former German spy chief was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of espionage and treason, an embarrassing case at a time when the country is seeking to broaden the powers of its intelligence agencies. August Hanning, who ran Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005, is accused of espionage, treason and working for foreign intelligence services, federal prosecutors said. FRANCE 24's Nick Holdsworth reports from Berlin.

August Hanning's former chief of staff was also arrested on suspicion of 'aiding and abetting attempted treason'.

August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information for a foreign power.

A California woman allegedly sent photos and videos of President Lai's son and his family to Chinese officials.

Britain’s MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf of Beijing’s state security service. In its “Espionage Alert”, MI5 said more than 100 UK-based academics had contributed to projects funded by the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), which had “very strong ties” to ‌the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing’s civilian intelligence...

UK intelligence agency accuses Chinese institute of funding academic research to boost Beijing’s espionage capability.