General view of the Coat of Arms at federal Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on May 9, 2023. (Martin Ollman/Getty Images
SYDNEY–Australia’s highest court on Wednesday blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the nation’s capital, unanimously upholding a law that cancelled its lease on national security grounds.
Russia owned a lease to a plot of land that is about 300 metres (984 feet) from Parliament House in Canberra and intended to build a new embassy building there to replace an older building elsewhere in the capital.
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