This contradicts reports that obama had told merkel he didnt know. Citing a u. S. Intelligence worker involved in the spying operation, he said nsa chief Keith Alexander informed obama in person about the surveillance in 2010. The paper quoted the source as saying that obama did not stop the operation back then, but let it continue. The article said they increased the surveillance to include the contents of merkels Text Messages. The agency then started tapping a new, supposedly bugproof cell phone she acquired this past summer. Media reports say obama apologized to merkel when she called him on wednesday. The president told merkel he would have stopped the bugging had he known about it. Specs spokespersons for the nsa have denied the allegations. The agency said in a statement in beijing on sunday that nsa chief alexander never had talks with president obama about its spying activities on people, including merkel in 2010. A german weekly magazine has disclosed the details of allegatio
Weeks. The country. Top japanese and australian leaders have announced that they have reached a broad agreement on a free trade deal the two countries have been negotiating since two thousand and seven to hammer out an accord. Prime minister shinzo ahmed and his australian counterpart tony abbott met in tokyo in a joint News Conference on this deal is crucial and strengthening bilateral ties and promoting trade and investment between the two nations or could it be when youre out. The agreement represents an historically significant events in strengthening our bilateral relationship. On that portsmouth a minute of it. I will work to sign the deal as soon as possible. Japanese government officials agreed to lower tariffs on australian beef from the current thirty eight and a half percent. They will lower tariffs on frozen beef to nineteen and a half percent and eighteen years and was called chilled beef to twenty three and a half percent in fifteen years australian leaders in return agre
Accumulated inside the number one reactor since the march 2011 nuclear accident. Workers began dismantling the cover of the building month to remove the debris. But their full pledged work to dismantle the cover will not take place until march of next year. Researchers say they need to build new facilities and cranes and they say that will take time to do. The current timetable says complete decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi plant will take 30 to 40 years. People of the u. S. Federal reserve have pumped billions into the economy every year, and now theyve decided theyre done. Good morning. What can you tell us . Well, catherine, as you know, this practice of buying billions of dollars worth of bonds was never meant to be permanent. It was a measure after the financial crisis of 2008. Policymakers have done three rounds of quantitative easing since. They have repeatedly said the end of qe3 would be dependent on the health of the labor market. The level is now below 6 and policyma
Accumulated inside the number one reactor since the march 2011 nuclear accident. Workers began dismantling the cover of the building month to remove the debris. But their full pledged work to dismantle the cover will not take place until march of next year. Researchers say they need to build new facilities and cranes and they say that will take time to do. The current timetable says complete decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi plant will take 30 to 40 years. People of the u. S. Federal reserve have pumped billions into the economy every year, and now theyve decided theyre done. Good morning. What can you tell us . Well, catherine, as you know, this practice of buying billions of dollars worth of bonds was never meant to be permanent. It was a measure after the financial crisis of 2008. Policymakers have done three rounds of quantitative easing since. They have repeatedly said the end of qe3 would be dependent on the health of the labor market. The level is now below 6 and policyma
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