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High-ranking German officials, including top members of the German secret service, will be going to Washington, DC, this week to meet with the White House and the National Security Agency over allegations US intelligence has been tapping Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone. The row over widespread US snooping threatened to hurt transatlantic ties. Merkel telephoned US President Barack Obama on October 23, saying that such spying would be a “breach of trust” between international partners. Der Spiegel reported that the US has been bugging her phone since 2002, when she was not yet Germany’s chancellor.
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