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...
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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...
Russian paper, Pope Francis and Edward Snowden among Nobel Peace nominees
By Alister Doyle A Russian newspaper critical of President Vladimir Putin is among the nominations for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Edward Snowden,...
Snowden files show Canada spy agency runs global Internet watch -CBC
By David Ljunggren Canada’s electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analyzing data on up to 15 million file downloads a day as part of...
Snowden documents show UK spies stored journalists’ emails – report
Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency stored emails from journalists working for several large media organisations, according to documents released by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward...
Snowden receives three-year Russian residence permit – lawyer
By Alexei Anishchuk Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programmes, has been...
Germany expels CIA official in US spy row (Updated)
By Madeline Chambers Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor...
New UK data laws to be fast tracked
By Michael Holden and William James Britain said on Thursday it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecoms firms to retain customer data for...
Anger mounts as Germany unearths second US spy suspect (Updated)
By Thorsten Severin German politicians reacted angrily on Wednesday to news of a suspected US spy in the defence ministry, which came days after the...
Four-way talks call for end to Ukraine violence
By Arshad Mohammed and Alexei Anishchuk The United States, Russia, Ukraine and European Union together called on Thursday for an immediate halt to violence in Ukraine, where Western powers believe Russia is fomenting...
Runaway spy Snowden is surprise guest on Putin phone-in (Updated)
By Steve Gutterman Edward Snowden, the fugitive former US spy agency contractor who leaked details of US intelligence eavesdropping, made a surprise appearance on TV phone-in...
NSA stories take Pulitzer Prize
By Ellen Wulfhorst The Guardian US and Washington Post were awarded the most prestigious Pulitzer prize on Monday for coverage of secret surveillance by the US National Security...
A spy story that’s not about Snowden
By Gwynne Dyer AND now for something completely different: a spy story that isn’t about Edward Snowden’s disclosures and the US National Security Agency’s surveillance...