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France summons US envoy over WikiLeaks spying allegations

France summoned the US ambassador yesterday to explain allegations by transparency lobby group WikiLeaks of what President Francois Hollande branded “unacceptable” spying on successive French leaders.

The latest revelations of espionage among Western allies come after it emerged the US National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on Germany and that Germany’s own BND intelligence agency had cooperated with the NSA to spy on officials and companies elsewhere in Europe.

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