TEhran, YJC. -- US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Monday for a shortened stay in Brunei for Asia security talks after speaking again to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on reviving peace talks.
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. -- The United States is applying "ill-considered" pressure on Russia and China to expel fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden that will only serve to move Moscow and Beijing closer together, a top Russian lawmaker warned Wednesday.
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.
Tehran, YJC. -- China called a US claim that it had facilitated the departure of former security contractor Edward Snowden from Hong Kong "groundless," on Tuesday, after Washington said Beijing had chosen to release him.
Tehran, YJC. -- Hong Kong Executive Council member Regina Ip said that if Snowden's actions are deemed to be political charges, then he will not be extradited to the US.
Tehran, YJC. -- Hong Kong can showcase its democratic pedigree by its handling of the Edward Snowden case, Chinese state media said Wednesday, in comments appearing to distance Beijing from any decision on his possible extradition.