About halfway through "Dear Henry," Whitney Halberstram hits his lowest ebb. Thanks to Harper's explosive remarks at the ALPHA Conference, Tender's stock price is cratering. Hayley - who turns out to be a hooker who does secretarial admin on the side and not an executive assistant who occasionally threesomes - is extorting him for $750,000. Henry is AWOL. Not even Jonah will break from putting notes in strippers' G-strings to take his call for old time's sake.
Two Chinese nationals have fallen foul of Australian laws on foreign interference introduced in 2018, with police alleging they spied on a Buddhist group under orders from law enforcement authorities in China. The pair a 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were to appear in court on Wednesday, each on the charge of "reckless foreign interference," and could face a maximum penalty of 15 years in jail if convicted.
Judge Jose Luis Calama, of the Audiencia Nacional high court, stated that Israel has blocked the investigation into a spying case against several members of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government using a spyware called Pegasus, marketed and developed by an Israeli company. The probe found preliminary evidence of crimes involving the disclosure of secrets, which jeopardized the security of the Spanish State.
The Cold War was largely an exercise in futility. Soviet spies surveilled American agents embedded in Russia; said American agents knew they were being stalked, recorded, and quietly threatened. Stateside, it was the same game of paranoia - and in the end, it's hard to say what actual fruit was borne of it. That irony is the one thing - maybe the only thing - that Ponies understands intimately.
Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police.
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, judicial authorities announced, as Tehran continues a widening crackdown on alleged collaborators following the 12-day Israel-United States-Iran war earlier this year. Aghil Keshavarz was put to death on Saturday morning after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction on espionage charges, according to Mizan, the judiciary's official news agency.
Houthi judges working with prosecutors in Yemen have sentenced 17 people to death by firing squad over alleged espionage on behalf of Israel and its western allies. The Specialized Criminal Court in the capital Sanaa handed down the sentences on Saturday morning in the cases of espionage cells within a spy network affiliated with American, Israeli, and Saudi intelligence, Houthi-run media said.
The agents at Slough House are renowned for the incompetence that landed them there, but there have been, of course, plenty of times when their instincts are sound, their actions are noble, and they're wildly underestimated, just like their flatulent boss. They're perhaps better understood as being on the spectrum of competence, because you can never guess whether last week's grievous error will lead to this week's unlikely triumph, and vice versa. Do recall that last week's successful maneuver to liberate themselves from lockdown was
