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The German authorities have said they suspect US intelligence agencies may have beenmonitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel’s private mobile phone calls. Mrs. Merkel reportedly spoketo President Obama today asking for immediate clarification. Nick Bryant reports.
The call to Barack Obama was initiated by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel after learningthat US intelligence may have targeted her private mobile phone. She demanded immediate andcomprehensive clarification from the president and said that if her suspicion turned out to betrue then it would represent a grave breach of trust and be totally unacceptable. Clearly theGerman government believe the allegation is plausible enough to confront the White House.During the conversation President Obama tried to assure her that America is not monitoringand will not monitor her communications but the White House has not said whether this denialapplies to possible past surveillance.
The Russian authorities have dropped charges of piracy against the 30 people detained on aGreenpeace ship in the Arctic last month during a protest against oil drilling. Investigators saythey will now be trialed on hooliganism. Here is Daniel Sandford.
The Investigative Committee, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI is running this investigation. Late inthe evening it suddenly put out a statement. It’s said that investigators were in the process ofchanging the charge phase by all 30 Greenpeace activists from piracy to hooliganism. The newcharge carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison instead of 15 but the investigatorsdidn’t rule out more serious charges at a later date in particular the use of violence againstofficials. All the Greenpeace activists have been denied bail so far and have been in detention forfive weeks at first on that ship and then in the jail in the Arctic port of Murmansk.
A judge has started hearing arguments in the largest municipal insolvency case in the UnitedStates with the once booming city of Detroit seeking bankruptcy protection. The city owes itscreditors around 18 billion dollars but the bankruptcy filing has been fiercely opposed byretirees, pension funds and unions. Signori Hussein reports.
Hundreds marched in front of the Federal Courthouse chanting angrily at what’s left of theircity. This was the cradle of America’s automobile industry but decades of decline have leftDetroit broke and unable to fulfill its promises to its workers. If Detroit is successful, creditorswould have to accept pennies on the dollar and some 23,000 retired city workers would seemajor changes to their pensions and benefits.
Large parts of Syria have been hit by a power cut after a series of explosions near Damascusairport. Residents say the entire capital has been plunged into darkness. Officials have blamedthe attack on opponents of president Bashar al-Assad.
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The Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif says he’s urged President Barack Obama to stopdrone strikes in his country. He was speaking to journalists after the two men met at the WhiteHouse in Washington. The use of remotely operated planes to attack militants is usuallycontroversial in Pakistan. Human rights groups say many of the attacks killed civilians andchildren who are not involved in militant acts.
Irish police have returned to their families two children they removed earlier in the week after aDNA test showed allegations about them not being with their real parents were not true. Rightsgroup has said the case’s reflected deeply ingrained anti-Roma prejudices. Andy Martin hasmore.
Child protection officers went to a house in southwest Dublin on Monday following a tip-off thata blond- haired girl appeared to be living with a Roma family. Two adults in the house insistedthat a seven-year-old girl with fair hair and blue eyes was their daughter, the officers howeverwere unpersuaded and the child was taken into an emergency care. DNA tests have now shownthe couple to be the girl’s parents. Another child removed from a different Roma household inthe Irish Midlands yesterday has been returned to his family.
The Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh has confirmed that his Islamist-led government isprepared to resign once it is completed negotiations with the opposition on forming a caretakeradministration. Their talks are aimed at ending months of crisis that scraped Tunisia since theassassination of two opposition politicians earlier this year. Mr. Laarayedh’s comments follow amarch by several thousand activists in the capital Tunis calling for his government to step down.
The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro says he will make the 8th of December a holiday inhonor of the late Hugo Chavez. Writing on Twitter, Mr. Maduro said it should be a day of loyaltyto the former President to be marked by as he put it ‘love in action’.
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