A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday approved an amendment to State Department funding bill aimed at pressuring Russia and other countries against giving asylum to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program leaker.
Protesters gathered outside Balmain Town Hall in Sydney's inner west on Monday morning, waiting for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's arrival for a Labor caucus meeting, local media reported.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Tuesday his government is relieved that Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered political asylum to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden who first requested asylum from Quito.
U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has filed an official request for temporary asylum in Russia, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said Tuesday.
U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has agreed to seek political asylum in Venezuela, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Brazil said Tuesday it had no intention to grant political asylum to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden who disclosed a vast program of U.S. world electronic surveillance.
U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has a chance to receive political asylum from Moscow if he requests it, a Russian official said Thursday.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Sunday that Edward Snowden, former intelligence contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States who is wanted for leaking the PRISM program, has sought asylum in the south American country.
While refusing to "comment on particular cases" in relations to the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, a United Nation refugees official in Hong Kong's spokeswoman said no asylum will stay in Hong Kong for good.
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