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NSA spying threatens to hamper US foreign policy

Washington, AP—Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Rome and Paris to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran but was confronted by outrage over the sweep and scope of US snooping abroad. President Barack Obama already has defended America’s surveillance...
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Brazilian chancellor Luiz Alberto Figueiredo (L), and Minister of Justice Jose Eduardo Cardoso (R) speak during a press conference at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, 02 September 2013, on the new complaints that United States spied on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR).


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In this July 30, 2013, file frame grab from Rossiya 24 television channel, Lon Snowden, the father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, speaks during an interview with Russian the state-owned Rossiya 24 television in Washington (AP Photo/Rossiya 24 via APTN, File)


Snowden’s father gets visa to visit son in Russia

Snowden’s father gets visa to visit son in Russia

Washington, Associated Press—National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said Sunday. Neither Lon Snowden nor his...
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A man exits the Terminal E of Sheremetyevo aiport, outside Moscow, Russia, 01 August 2013. Russia granted Edward Snowden temporary asylum and let the US whistleblower leave the Moscow airport where he had been staying for almost five weeks. (EPA/Maxim Shipenkov)


Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

Moscow, AP—National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn’t shying away from...

Two rights officials in Russia plan to meet Snowden

Moscow, AP—Two prominent Russian human rights officials say they plan to meet on Friday with Edward Snowden, who recently leaked of US National Security Agency secrets, after receiving an invitation calling them to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport....