Australia denies Russian embassy near parliament in Canberra.

Australia's parliament will pass legislation to cancel Russia's lease on a site in Canberra, where it had plans to build a new embassy, due to concerns about national security. The move follows long-running litigation over the site after Australia's federal court ruled last month that an eviction order made by the National Capital Authority was invalid. The termination of the lease has no impact on Russia's existing embassy, which is in the former Soviet Union embassy in the suburb of Griffith, further away from Parliament House.