Ireland kicks out four Russian diplomats

DUBLIN — Ireland says it has expelled four Russian diplomatic officials amid reports that Moscow’s embassy in Dublin had become a hotbed of espionage and surveillance.

Foreign minister Simon Coveney says “four senior officials have been asked to leave the state” for engaging in activities “not… in accordance with international standards of diplomatic behavior.”

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