American journalist Thomas Pauken II admitted June 4 to a six-year campaign gathering intelligence on US political figures for China's Ministry of State Security under handler direction, and faces sentencing September 1.

Norway detained a Chinese woman in a suspected espionage case involving an alleged Chinese state-backed effort to use a Norway-registered company to establish a satellite data receiving station near strategically sensitive Arctic infrastructure.

Yemen’s authorities claim to have exposed a foreign-directed espionage network that enabled outside strikes, but the allegations remain unverified and support established political narratives.