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Editorial: Mere protests won't stop US spy machine
Editorial: President Obama is in some trouble with friends and allies in Europe. Spying - even on friends - is as old as statecraft. What has changed is the method.
Claim Obama kept in dark over bugging
United States officials claim the White House only discovered the National Security Agency was spying on world leaders in the middle of the year.
Asylum 'cruises' to NZ touted
People-smugglers are promoting passage to NZ for $17,000 and describe it to would-be customers as "the cruise ship option", secret recordings reveal.
Merkel's mobile 'spied on for 10 years'
New claims have emerged over the extent of United States intelligence agencies' monitoring of the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Oligarch PM plans his exit
Georgia's billionaire Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili looks surprised at the suggestion that he might be a touch sensitive to criticism.
Catherine Field: Demonised Valls on course for France's top job
By many measures, to be Interior Minister in France today is to have the country's toughest job.