Canadian intern at NATO military headquarters in Belgium faces spying charges

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Canadian intern at NATO military headquarters in Belgium faces spying charges

A Canadian woman who was an intern at NATO's military headquarters in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, Belgian prosecutors said Saturday.

"She is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization," the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

The woman was as an intern at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in the Belgian city of Mons, it said. The prosecutor's office described her as a Canadian national of Chinese origin, but it didn't name or provide more details of her identity. It did not specify the third country or criminal organization to which she's allegedly linked.

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