By Reuters UK
The head of the U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday defended the broad surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet data as a vital security tool and said it had helped disrupt possible attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001. (2:35 am)
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By Reuters
China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology. (12:49 am)
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CHINA, SAMSUNG, LG ELECTRONICS, SMARTPHONE, ANDROID, LONDON
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North Korea rushed to the defense of American civil liberties on Tuesday, saying revelations of mass surveillance operations showed the United States was the "kingpin" of rights abuse. (4:28 pm)
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED NATIONS
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Eight new faces have been inducted into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's council of ministers on Monday. (3:03 pm)
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ELECTIONS
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As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. (2:40 pm)
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By Reuters UK
The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data fought back against his critics on Monday, saying the government's "litany of lies" about the programs compelled him to act. (Jun 18)
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CHINA, BARACK OBAMA, HUMAN RIGHTS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, LAWSUIT
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Powerful regional party Janata Dal (United) pulled out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday, a split that could hobble the rise of controversial Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi who hopes to oust the ruling Congress party in elections due by May 2014. (Jun 17)
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ELECTIONS
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The popular expectation for the coming general election is that it will be a showdown between the scion of the grand old Congress party's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and a firebrand leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). There i... (Jun 15)
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