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China said on Thursday that accusations against an alleged Chinese spy accused of attempting to steal trade secrets from American aviation and aerospace companies were "made out of thin air."

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The lawyer for a Norwegian man facing charges of espionage in Russia on Monday speculated whether a prisoner exchange could be set up between the two nations.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said the West's response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy has seriously hurt Russia's intelligence capability.

China's foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed allegations that Chinese intelligence officers had committed commercial espionage in the United States and were stealing information on jet engines.

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U.S. national security officials say China's cyber threats and the theft of intellectual property from American companies pose one of the largest economic and national security challenges for the United States.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday Moscow will support "any decision" taken by Maria Butina, the woman who is accused of spying for Moscow in the United States, aimed at her release.

The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in London says his government is studying whether to grant clemency to a convicted British academic sentenced to life in prison for espionage.

Russia's domestic security agency said on Monday that it had arrested a US citizen on espionage charges.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed at a briefing in Moscow on Friday that Paul Whelan, a former US Marine, is accused of espionage and will face trial.

A former US Marine being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying appeared in court on Tuesday to hear the appeal of his arrest.

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Russia's foreign minister says Moscow isn't considering a possibility of swapping an American arrested on suspicion of espionage for any of the Russians held in the US.

A Russian court has upheld an earlier ruling to keep a former US Marine in a Moscow jail for three more months as he faces espionage charges.

China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday hit back at warnings from the US intelligence community over Chinese corporate espionage, calling the accusations "random" and "totally unreasonable".

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A Moscow court on Friday extended the detention for the American arrested at the end of December for alleged spying.

A group of German and Spanish MP's called for detained Wikileaks founder Julian Assange not to be extradited from the United Kingdom, citing concerns about his welfare and human rights.