Belarus's intelligence agency says it has uncovered a network of U.S. spies working in the ex-Soviet republic.

A Defense Department analyst and several Chinese nationals were detained Monday by the FBI on suspicion of selling U.S. data intended for Taiwan to the Chinese government in Beijing.

A British military inquiry has found that a fatal air crash in Afghanistan last year was probably caused by a fuel leak after air-to-air refuelling.

Israel has accused its military reserve major of espionage for Iran and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, according to court documents.

Belarus's secret services say they have arrested a spy ring working for Poland. Four Belarusians and one Russian citizen have been detained on charges of selling classified information about the air-defense systems of Belarus and Russia.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI6, recruited a Russian man for spying, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.

The United States has rejected as "absurd" Iranian allegations of spying against three people holding dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said on May 29 that the three are private citizens and are not party to any of the policy disputes between the United States and the Iranian government.

Egyptian authorities say they have arrested an engineer from the country's nuclear energy agency on charges of spying for Israel. The Egyptian government Tuesday announced that the engineer was arrested on February 18 for taking important documents from the Atomic Energy Agency. Authorities accuse the Egyptian worker of selling the documents to Israeli intelligence contacts for thousands of dollars.

Two American envoys were surprised for the North Korean naval colonel told the ship they were about to board was an example of continued U.S. aggression toward his country.