Americas

Google cites 1st Amendment in US surveillance court challenge

5 hours 55 min ago

Tech giant moves to publish national security requests as part of free speech rights in wake of NSA surveillance scandal

More Americans see Snowden as ‘patriot’ than traitor: Poll

13 June

WASHINGTON - Roughly one in three Americans say the former security contractor who leaked details of top-secret United States surveillance activity is a patriot and should not...

Ex-CIA leaker was an anime-loving high-school dropout

13 June

WASHINGTON - Long before he became known worldwide as the NSA contractor who exposed top-secret United States government surveillance programmes, Mr Edward Snowden worked for a...

Surveillance helped thwart attacks: US security chief

13 June

WASHINGTON — The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programmes as an effective tool in keeping America safe, telling Congress...

Ex-CIA ‘geek’ was already being hunted before leak

13 June

WASHINTON - United States government investigators began an urgent search for Edward Snowden several days before the first media reports were published on the government’s...

US civil liberties union sues over gathering of data

13 June

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Obama administration on Tuesday, asking the government to halt PRISM, the United States government’s massive Web...

NSA leaker Snowden says he’s not avoiding justice

13 June

Mr Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about US surveillance programmes, has said in a new interview in Hong Kong that he is not attempting...

Colorado wildfire forces prison evacuation

12 June

COLORADO SPRINGS — A wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 900 prisoners at a state prison outside Colorado Springs.

Secret programme leaker Snowden goes dark in HK

12 June

HONG KONG — The former CIA employee who suddenly burst into headlines around the globe by revealing himself as the source of top-secret leaks about US surveillance programs has...