Germany and Brazil have called for an end to excessive
electronic surveillance in a draft resolution to the UN on Friday which
diplomats say is aimed at the United States.
The suspected gunman who killed one security agent and wounded
several other people when he opened fire at Los Angeles International
Airport on Friday has been identified as a 23-year-old local man whose
family feared he would take his own life.
At a meeting in Moscow, fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden told German lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele that he’s willing
to help German officials investigate alleged US spying, Stroebele
revealed Friday.
US President Barack Obama and Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki
discussed how to "push back" against al Qaeda at a meeting at the White
House on Friday as violence in the country reached levels not seen for
five years.
A highly sophisticated tunnel linking warehouses in the
Mexican city of Tijuana and the US city of San Diego has been discovered
by authorities as part of efforts to crack down on underground drug
smuggling.
In an unprecedented statement since revelations of widespread
US electronic spying first came to light, Secretary of State John Kerry
said on Thursday that in some cases surveillance had gone too far.
Cory Booker, the 44-year-old African-American political star
from New Jersey, was sworn in to the US Senate on Thursday, becoming
only the ninth black senator in US history and giving Obama’s Democrats
another voice in Congress’s upper house.
New York City raised the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes
and e-cigarettes on Thursday from 18 to 21. It is now the biggest US
city to ban the sale of cigarettes to those under the age of 21.
The NSA hacked into cables used by Google and Yahoo to
transport information between data centres around the world to access a
vast quantity of information on users, according to a report in the
Washington Post on Wednesday.
US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he will take
“full responsibility” for fixing the federal government’s healthcare
insurance website, HealthCare.gov, which has been plagued by problems
since its launch on October 1.
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