1.   China denies the spying accusation.

2.   A spying accusation against embassy staffers or diplomats by one country is usually followed by a tit-for-tat expulsion by the other.

3.   Despite a month of controversy over the spying accusations against the prime minister, the leftists have improved in polls.

4.   He blamed the spying accusations on a desire for political revenge by supporters of Solidarity hero Lech Walesa.

5.   He has denied the spying accusations.

6.   Spying accusations deepen political disputes.

7.   The case is just the latest in a long history of tit-for-tat spying accusations and expulsions.

8.   The latest round of spying accusations plunged Poland deeper into a political dispute with roots in its communist past.

9.   The spying accusations have thrown a hitch into the arrangement under which South Korea is supplying free rice to the North.

10.   The spying accusations threw a hitch into the arrangement under which South Korea is supplying free rice to the North.