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Putin grants Edward Snowden Russian citizenship: decree

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed massive surveillance by the US National Security Agency and...

US Senate to vote to renew NSA’s internet surveillance program

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate on Tuesday planned to vote to advance a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrant-less internet surveillance program, as privacy...

Five things to know about WikiLeaks

PARIS: WikiLeaks has made global headlines for 10 years by releasing millions of classified documents, embarrassing governments worldwide but also raising fears that the...

Snowden’s lawyer says extradition report is ‘speculation’

MOSCOW: Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer on Saturday dismissed a US report that Moscow was considering extraditing the NSA whistleblower as a "gift" to President...

US, UK spies targeted airline passengers’ mobiles: report

PARIS: American and British spy agencies have tried to intercept data from passengers' mobile phones on commercial airlines including Air France, French media has...

Snowden loses final Norway appeal for no-extradition pledge

OSLO: Norway's supreme court on Friday rejected a final appeal by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden to secure assurances he would not be extradited to the...

The winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2016 is anyone’s guess

OSLO: A veteran Russian rights activist, or the architects of the Iranian nuclear accord? The field of contenders for Friday's Nobel Peace Prize was...

Edward Snowden film premieres in Hong Kong

HONG KONG: The new movie 'Snowden' held its premiere in Hong Kong on Friday (September 30) night. The asylum-seeking family who, at one point,...

Money, roadblocks and drama; Oliver Stone’s battles over ‘Snowden’

LOS ANGELES: From presidents to serial killers, Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone hasn't shied away from exploring controversial figures, but he initially balked when asked to make a film about former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

Edward Snowden biopic revealed at Toronto film festival

TORONTO: Patriot, dissident or traitor? A new film by anti-establishment director Oliver Stone starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asks audiences to weigh in.

Edward Snowden talks about dramatising his life in film debut

SAN DEIGO: When former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden met with Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to discuss a movie on his life, he never thought he would be making his own film debut.

Norwegian court rejects Edward Snowden lawsuit on free passage

OSLO: Former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden has failed in a legal bid to win guarantees from Norway that it would not extradite him to the United States if he went there to receive a free speech award, a Norwegian court said on Monday.

Apple ordered to hack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

SANFRANCISCO: An American judge ordered Apple on Tuesday to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the attackers in the San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people.

UK acquired Pakistan communications data by hacking routers: Snowden

LONDON: Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden claimed that the UK government acquired a good amount of communications data from inside Pakistan by hacking into US-manufactured routers.

Stolen SIM card keys could be powerful spy tool

WASHINGTON: It would be another powerful tool in the arsenal of US and British spy services: the encryption keys for a large share of the SIM cards used for mobile phones.

British spy agency tapped journalists' emails: report

LONDON: Britain's electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world's top media organisations, the Guardian reported on Monday.

Britain spied on the world through cable & wireless

LONDON: Telecommunications firm Cable & Wireless helped Britain eavesdrop on millions of Internet users worldwide, Channel 4 reported on Thursday, citing previously secret documents leaked by a fugitive former U.S. National Security Agency contractor.

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