Officials: US drone kills Pakistani Taliban leader
By RASOOL DAWAR and KIMBERLY DOZIER FILE – In this file photo taken Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, left, is seen with his comrade Waliur…
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Indonesia summons Aussie ambassador over spy claim
By KRISTEN GELINEAU Security officers stand guard at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Australia’s ambassador met with Indonesian government officials who summoned him…
Snowden seeks world’s help against US charges
By GEIR MOULSON and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Opposition Greens lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele, shows a letter to the media, he claims he received from Edward Snowden, prior to a press conference in…
Republicans go on attack _ against others in GOP
By DAVID ESPO FILE – In this July 15, 2013, file photo Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is surrounded by reporters as he heads to the Old Senate Chamber for a…
Why spy on allies? Even good friends keep secrets
By NANCY BENAC FILE – In this Sept. 6, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama walks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel toward a group photo outside of the Konstantin Palace…
China, other Asians angry over embassy spy reports
By KRISTEN GELINEAU In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, a man digs a trench near a mushroom shaped heating exhaust shaft near the newly constructed US embassy in…
EU SPYING BACKLASH THREATENS BILLIONS IN US TRADE
By JUERGEN BAETZ FILE – This is a Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo of President Barack Obama, right, greets President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso on Barroso’s…
NSA SPYING THREATENS TO HAMPER US FOREIGN POLICY
By DEB RIECHMANN Demonstrators rally near the U.S. Capitol in Washington to demand that Congress investigate the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose…