US whistleblower Snowden gets a Russian passport
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the scale of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), has sworn an oath of allegiance...
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Putin says Snowden was wrong to leak secrets, but is no traitor
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he believes former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was wrong to leak US spy secrets, but is...
Norway appeals court rejects Snowden extradition lawsuit
A Norwegian appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from fugitive former US spy contractor Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, upholding the verdict of a...
Norwegian court rejects Edward Snowden lawsuit on free passage
Former US spy contractor Edward Snowden has failed in a legal bid to win guarantees from Norway that it would not extradite him to the...
Snowden to take Norway to court to secure free passage
Edward Snowden will take the Norwegian state to court in a bid to secure free passage there, a Norwegian law firm representing the former US...
German spy agency snooped on its own diplomat
Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service spied on a German diplomat, potentially breaching the constitution, and on allies including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, a German...
Edward Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut
By Bill Trott Edward Snowden has come in from the cold – on Twitter. Snowden, the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details...
U.S. Senate lets NSA spy program lapse, at least for now
By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies’ collection of Americans’ phone records and other data expired at midnight on...
US NSA’s phone spying programme ruled illegal by appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel A US spying programme that systematically collects millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting...
New Zealand spying on Pacific neighbours and Indonesia
By Gyles Beckford New Zealand has been spying electronically on its Pacific Island neighbours and Indonesia and sharing the intelligence with its international allies, according...
