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Snooping row: Germany wants apology from US
Strike cripples B’desh; 14 dead
Stone hurled at Indian envoy’s car in Maldives
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Maldives officials refuse to change re-vote date
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Snooping row: Germany wants apology from US
Berlin, October 28 “We will not allow ourselves to be treated by the Americans in this manner. Spying on friends and partners is completely unacceptable," German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said yesterday. Germany expected an apology from the US and an assurance that its surveillance operations will be stopped immediately, he said in a TV interview. Weekly German news magazine Der Spiegel said top secret NSA documents disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showed that the agency conducted a spying programme on Merkel's mobile phone and possibly the entire government complex in Berlin from the nearby American embassy from as far back as 2002. Decades of close friendship and partnership built up on the basis of mutual trust have suffered "severe damage" and it will take a lot of efforts to restore it, Friedrich said. He also warned that if American intelligence services tapped mobile phones in Germany, they have violated the country's laws and those responsible could face charges of criminal offence. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the NSA's surveillance operations are politically "very damaging". Meanwhile, a report by Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Obama was informed about the NSA's tapping of Merkel's mobile phone already in 2010 by its director. Justice Minister Leutheusser Schnarrenberger said if the allegations were proved true, it is a "very serious matter" and there can be no "business as usual" with the Americans. She joined the opposition to demand a parliamentary inquiry committee to investigate the snooping scandal. — PTI German MPs to discuss spying impact
Berlin: The German Parliament will hold a special session next month to assess the impact of mass US surveillance including the alleged tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel phone, deputies said on Monday. The heads of the parliamentary groups of Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats, the two parties in talks on forming the next German government, agreed to call the debate on November 18, a CDU spokesman said. — AFP Spain seeks details
Madrid: Spain on Monday demanded details of any US eavesdropping, saying new reports of mass telephone surveillance in the country would be "inappropriate and unacceptable" if proven to be true. Spain delivered the message to US ambassador James Costos, who was summoned as outrage spread over the reports that US tracked 60.5 million Spanish phone calls in a month. — PTI |
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Strike cripples B’desh; 14 dead
Dhaka, October 28 The two were killed in the north and southeast, raising the overall death toll in the political unrest to 14 since Friday, as schools and businesses remained shut across the country. The police said opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists hacked a rival ruling party supporter to death in the northern town of Rambhadra Bazaar, amid a mounting crisis over upcoming elections. "BNP supporters hacked the Awami League supporter to death with machetes at Rambhadra Bazar early in the morning," local police chief Saidur Rahman said. A truck driver also died after being pelted with bricks by supporters of the country's largest Islamist party, a key ally of BNP, in the southeastern coastal town of Satkania, regional police chief Hafiz Akter said. The latest violence comes after last-minute talks on Saturday between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her bitter rival, BNP leader Khaleda Zia, failed to halt the strike and defuse the crisis. Hasina's appeal to call off the strike occurred during a 40-minute phone conversation - believed to be the first time in at least a decade that the two "battling begums" have spoken, underlining the severity of the crisis. "Begum" is an honorific for a Muslim woman of rank. The BNP and its Islamist allies called mass protests on Friday ahead of the strike to force Hasina to give up power.
—PTI widespread clashes
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Stone hurled at Indian envoy’s car in Maldives
Male, October 28 A photo posted on the website showed the rock had made a hole in the rear windscreen of the Mercedes-Benz but did not cause any other damage. “The police have arrived at the scene and efforts are ongoing to find the suspects,” a police official said. — PTI |
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Maldives officials refuse to change re-vote date
Male, October 28 The three candidates in a rare instance of agreement proposed that the elections commission move up its third attempt at holding the vote so it takes place before Nov 11 when President Mohamed Waheed Hassan's term ends. Candidate Mohamed Nasheed said Commissioner Fuwad Thoufeek rejected the proposal, citing a lack of time and resources. — AP
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Two more Bangladesh protesters were killed in clashes on Monday, the second day of a nationwide strike called by the Opposition demanding the prime minister quit and hold elections under a caretaker government.
