- US embassy closures extended over militant threat fears
- Drone strikes kill militants in Yemen; Americans urged to leave
- Greenwald: Is US Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of NSA Domestic Surveillance?
- The NSA Leaks Put Our 'Methods' At Risk, But Bragging About Monitoring Al Qaeda Emails Doesn't?
- Colbert: Global Terror Warning—"The Obama administration alerts Americans about an imminent Al Qaeda attack that could happen any moment, anywhere and anytime."
- Obama: 'We Don't Have A Domestic Spying Program'—It's a global spying program.
- Obama Cancels Meeting With Putin In Moscow
- Greenwald: New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks
- Russian senator fundraises for Edward Snowden's work on personal data—"United Russia politician Ruslan Gattarov says he has set up a website to gather money for the NSA whistleblower's work."
- Former NSA Boss Calls Snowden's Supporters Internet Shut-ins; Equates Transparency Activists With Al-Qaeda
- US drug agency surveillance unit to be investigated by Department of Justice—"Civil rights groups express concern after revelations that secret unit uses wiretaps and telephone records to arrest Americans."
- Government Reverses Course on Warrantless Wiretapping in Criminal Case, Admits Duty to Notify Defendants
- Mass Data: Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance—"German intelligence sends massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA, according to documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, which SPIEGEL has seen. The trans-Atlantic cooperation on technical matters is also much closer than first thought."
- Germans' fear of American spying surges FT
- Schneier: Defeating the modern Leviathan of corporate-government data collection—"Individuals face an unholy alliance of data-hungry private firms and public agencies. Only citizen action can win back our privacy."
- Tunisia crisis: Tens of thousands join protest—"Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, to demand the resignation of the Islamist-led government."
- Uganda Passes Tough New Law Against Public Protest—'The law gives the police powers to control public meetings, including the use of force to break up gatherings held without prior authorization. Even meetings of a political nature held between three people must be authorized by the police...."
- Egypt: Diplomacy Hasn’t Resolved Political Standoff
- Canada: You will be shocked(!) to see who is on Stephen Harper's full 'enemy' list
- Falklands, global espionage and multilateral organizations in CFK dialogue with Ban Ki-moon
- Gunman kills head of Venezuela opposition party
- Japan launches largest warship since World War II
- Secret trove of files on N Korean rights abuses—"US and South Korean intelligence agencies are sitting on a huge archive recording torture, starvation and gross human rights abuses in North Korea. The files would be of great value to a United Nations investigation into crimes against humanity by the Pyongyang regime." Disclosure c/o Wikileaks.
- US criticises Vietnam internet control law—"The US has criticised a new internet decree in Vietnam that would restrict online users from discussing current affairs."
- Chinese firm paid insider 'to kill my company,' American CEO says
- Indonesia: Nazi-themed Asia café sparks global outrage
- Why Is A Top Obama Strategist Helping Sell UK Immigration Crackdown?
- UK: Doreen Lawrence pledges to condemn 'racial profiling' spot checks in the House of Lords—"Equalities watchdog says it will investigate the operations, with one member of the public saying it was akin to 'Nazi Germany.'"
- French Mayor threatens suicide over traveller camp
- Immigrants under fire in Italy despite pope's call for tolerance
- Swedish police cleared over shooting that sparked riots—"Prosecutors in Sweden have closed the inquiry into a police shooting which sparked Stockholm's worst riots in decades this May."
- Outrage as Swiss move to segregate asylum-seekers
- Malta refuses European demand to accept Africa migrants
- Saudi prince defects from royal family
- Saudi offers Russia deal to scale back Assad support
- Syria fired ballistic missiles on its largest city in February. This is what it looks like now
- Bahrain bans protests in capital ahead of major anti-govt demonstration
- Turkish ex-army boss Basbug sentenced to life for Ergenekon overthrow plot
- 'This is our land': Protests at plan to remove Bedouins from ancestral villages—"The so-called 'Prawer plan' is being fought in and outside Israel."
- Israel blocks EU projects in West Bank
