SYDNEY, Australia: Australia blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the shadow of Parliament House on Thursday after intelligence officials warned that it posed a spying risk and security threat.
Russia holds the lease for a parcel of land some 400 meters (0.25 miles) from Australia's parliamentary precinct in the capital Canberra and has been laying the foundations for a new embassy building.
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