Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Saturday said he had written to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he seeks to steady relations which have been strained by allegations of espionage.
Leaders of two major Norwegian parties, angry over the reported U.S. mass surveillance of millions of mobile phone calls in the country, on Tuesday demanded the Norwegian government take up the issue with the Obama administration.
South Korea on Monday urged North Korea to identify a South Korean citizen it said it had arrested for espionage, as a newspaper report suggested the detained man was a missionary.
Indonesia's foreign minister Marty Natalegawa warns future cooperation with Australia could be in jeopardy without assurances about spy ing operations.
Malaysia summoned the heads of the US and Australian missions in protest at spy ing allegations, its foreign minister said Saturday, as a row over a vast US-led surveillance network deepened in Asia.
US espionage chiefs turned the tables on European allies in the transatlantic spat over intercepted phone records, saying in many cases it was European agencies -- not the NSA -- that gathered and shared them with America.
The National Security Agency stopped spy ing on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders after the White House learned of the snooping, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who broke many of the recent stories about secret US surveillance programs, claimed Monday that all Latin American countries had been spied on by Washington.
Israel's Shin Bet security service on Sunday announced the arrest on September 11 of an Iranian " spy " carrying photographs of the US embassy in Tel Aviv.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff will announce Tuesday whether she will keep a state visit to Washington next month after a row over reported US cyber- spy ing on her and Brazil's oil giant, her government said.
Brazil and Mexico demanded explanations from the United States on Monday over allegations that the National Security Agency spied on the communications of their presidents.
Tehran, YJC. -- "One of the things General Alexander has proposed is that a systems administrator, like this most recent leaker, any time he is having a level of access he enjoyed, it's a ... two-person control," he said.
Tehran, YJC. -- Americans are planning to hold nationwide demonstrations in more than one hundred cities to protest against the government’s surveillance programs recently leaked by a former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA).
Tehran, YJC.-- Secret intelligence work is essential to protecting people's freedoms, but it must be done within the law, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in the United States Tuesday.