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Merkel has been invited to the US capital to mend ties with Obama (Photo: Bundesregierung)

Report: NSA spying on German ministers instead of Merkel

The US intelligence service, the NSA, has allegedly expanded its surveillance of German government officials since being ordered by President Barack Obama to stop spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday (23 February), quoting a senior NSA employee in Germany.

"We have had the order not to miss out on any information now that we are no longer able to monitor the Chancellor's communication directly," the source told the mass-circulation newspaper.

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Merkel has been invited to the US capital to mend ties with Obama (Photo: Bundesregierung)

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