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June 30, 2013

Ecuador president: Snowden can't leave Moscow

Source: AP

PUERTO VIEJO, Ecuador — Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has told The Associated Press that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is "under the care of Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without his U.S. passport.

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June 30, 2013

Germany Compares Reported U.S. Bugging To 'Cold War'

Source: AP

BERLIN — Senior European lawmakers say they are shocked at reports that U.S. intelligence agents bugged EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic. They also called for existing U.S.-EU agreements on the exchange of bank transfer and passenger record information to be canceled.

A top German official accused the United States on Sunday of using "Cold War" methods against its allies, after a German magazine cited secret intelligence documents to claim that U.S. spies bugged European Union offices.

Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was responding to a report by German news weekly Der Spiegel, which claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on EU offices in Washington, New York and Brussels. The magazine cited classified U.S. documents taken by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that it said it had partly seen.

"If the media reports are accurate, then this recalls the methods used by enemies during the Cold War," Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/30/germany-bugging_n_3524755.html