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A leading U.S. newspaper says U.S. President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing that his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and that the program has now ended.
The Wall Street Journal, in a report Monday citing anonymous U.S. officials, says President Obama learned of the snooping after ordering an internal review a few months ago.
The newspaper account says the review uncovered the U.S. National Security Agency had tapped the phones of 35 world leaders, and that the NSA ended most of the program after the White House learned of the operation.
Security Council to Discuss Eastern DRC as Fighting Continues
The U.N. Security Council is set to discuss the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Monday, after fighting between rebels and soldiers continued there for a third day.
DRC Information Minister Lambert Mende told VOA that troops have regained control in the town of Kiwanja and the M23 rebel stronghold of Rutshuru in North Kivu province near the border with Rwanda.
The fighting began Friday less than a week after peace talks between the government and the M23 broke down after failing to reach an agreement on amnesty for the rebels. Each side accuses the other of launching the first attacks.
Argentina's Ruling Party Takes Hit in Midterm Vote
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's governing bloc took a drubbing in Sunday's midterm elections, shrinking her congressional majority and snuffing out chances of a constitutional change to allow her a third term.
Opposition leader and the president's former cabinet chief Sergio Massa beat out the president's handpicked candidate in the country's largest voting district, Buenos Aires province.
Massa, the mayor of the affluent town of Tigre, is widely expected to be a presidential candidate in the 2015 presidential election.
Georgia Ruling Party Candidate Wins Decisive Presidential Victory
Georgia's ruling coalition has cemented its control of the country's government with an overwhelming presidential election victory.
With most of the vote counted Monday, Giorgi Margvelashvili had 62 percent of Sunday's vote with his closest challenger at just 22 percent.
Margvelashvili is a member of billionaire Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition, and soundly defeated the candidate running under outgoing President Mikhail Saakashvili's party.