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Russia strongly denied that military intelligence hackers tried to infiltrate into US voting systems. (AFP)


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In this posed picture photograph, a woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a problem in its network, in London on May 12, 2017. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP


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In this image released by Radius TWC, Edward Snowden (L) appears with Glenn Greenwald in a scene from ‘Citizenfour,’ a documentary that intimately captures Snowden during his leak of NSA documents. (AP Photo/Radius TWC)


Review: Citizenfour

Review: Citizenfour

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A slim, but innocuous-looking man with ashen skin and dark circles under his eyes studies himself in the mirror of his Hong Kong hotel room, where he has been hiding out for over a week. The TV screen by him is playing the day’s leading world...
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US President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency (NSA) and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, January 17, 2014. Obama trimmed the powers of the secretive US eavesdropping agency Friday by calling for new privacy safeguards, but allowed bulk phone data sweeps to continue as an anti-terror tool. In a long-awaited speech outlining changes to programs exposed by Edward Snowden, Obama also said he had halted National Security Agency (NSA) spy taps targeting friendly world leaders. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB


Obama announces limits on surveillance program‬‬

Obama announces limits on surveillance program‬‬

Washington, AP—US President Barack Obama is ordering changes to the government’s vast collection of phone records, promising that “we will not monitor the communications of heads of state and government of our close friends and allies.” The president said on Friday he...

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...