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Australia drops charge against lawyer over spying claim

FILE - Lawyer Bernard Collaery addresses the media in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, June 28, 2018. Australia’s new government on Thursday, July 7, 2022 dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of the lawyer over his alleged attempt to help East Timor prove that Australia had spied on the then-fledgling nation’s government in 2004 during multibillion-dollar oil and gas negotiations. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File) FILE - Lawyer Bernard Collaery, left, addresses the media as lawmaker Andrew Wilkie, right, looks on in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 28, 2018. Australia’s new government on Thursday, July 7, 2022 dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his alleged attempt to help East Timor prove that Australia had spied on the then-fledgling nation’s government in 2004 during multibillion-dollar oil and gas negotiations. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)