Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat for spying - an accusation denied by London - in the latest blow to the already dire state of relations between the two countries.

Russia has expelled a British diplomat after accusing him of espionage, according to reports. The TASS news agency cited Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying that the ministry had also summoned the British ambassador.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has revoked accreditation of two employees of the German ARD broadcaster and ordered them to leave the country, in what it described as a retaliation to German author

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it will expel one correspondent and one cameraman from Germany's ARD in a tit-for-tat response to German moves against Russia's Channel One. Channel One reported that Germany was closing its Berlin bureau and that two Russian journalists,