Several hurt in shooting near US National Security Agency
Several people were injured in a shooting incident on Wednesday when a car tried to drive onto the campus of the U.S. National Security Agency...
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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...
Germany drops probe into US spying on Merkel
By Erik Kirschbaum Germany’s top public prosecutor closed a year-long investigation into the suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone by US spies, saying...
German spies curb Internet snooping for US after row
By Madeline Chambers Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the US National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence...
Germany opens Merkel bugging probe (Updated)
By Stephen Brown Germany’s top public prosecutor has launched an investigation into the bugging of Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by US intelligence in the light of revelations by...
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...
The right to be forgotten: a debate that’s not going away
By Poly Pantelides CYPRUS, darling of sun seekers and beach goers, is also home to major spying facilities jointly funded by the UK and the...
Canada allowed widespread NSA surveillance at 2010 G20 summit – report
By David Ljunggren Canada allowed the U.S. National Security Agency to conduct widespread surveillance during the 2010 Group of 20 summit in Toronto, according to...
US logged 33 million phone calls in NATO ally Norway – report
By Gwladys Fouche The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) logged more than 33 million Norwegian phone conversations over a period of a month last winter,...
Indonesian, Australia leaders trade jabs over spying allegations
By Kanupriya Kapoor and Lincoln Feast The leaders of Indonesia and Australia traded punches on Tuesday in a row over alleged spying by Canberra, with...
Snowden writes to Germans to seek support in spy row
By Stephen Brown and Alexandra Hudson Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has told Germany he is counting on international support to stop Washington’s ‘persecution’...
German journalists urged to shun Google and Yahoo
By Harro Ten Wolde The union representing German journalists advised its members on Thursday to stop using Google and Yahoo because of reported snooping by...
US spy chiefs face Congress amid spying rift with Europe
By Tabassum Zakaria and Deborah Charles When top U.S. intelligence officials testified at a congressional hearing weeks ago, the public uproar was over the National...
US NSA spied on 60 mln Spanish phone calls in a month – report
The US National Security Agency (NSA) recently tracked over 60 million calls in Spain in the space of a month, a Spanish newspaper said on...
Germany, France to unite in anger over US spying accusations
By Luke Baker German and French accusations that the United States has run spying operations in their countries, including possibly bugging Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile...
Merkel calls Obama over suspicion US monitored her phone
The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she called President Barack...
France summons US ambassador over spying report
By Adrian Croft and Arshad Mohammed France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest allegations in Le Monde newspaper about large-scale spying on French...
US spied on presidents of Brazil, Mexico – report
By Anthony Boadle The U.S. National Security Agency spied on the communications of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, a Brazilian news programme reported, a...
Guardian says Britain made it destroy Snowden material
By Estelle Shirbon and Michael Holden The British authorities forced the Guardian newspaper to destroy material leaked by Edward Snowden, its editor has revealed, calling...
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year – report
By Eric Beech The U.S. National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the...