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The United States spied on conversations between Angela Merkel and Ban Ki-Moon

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves during a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party election campaign rally of CDU deputy head and leader of the CDU in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Julia Kloeckner in Landau, Germany February 22, 2016, prior to the upcoming Rhineland-Palatinate state elections, which are due to be held on March 13. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

New disclosures from WikiLeaks reveal that the espionage targeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) was more intense than initially thought.

Tuesday the website released classified documents showing that U.S. intelligence listened to a telephone conversation that the German president had in 2008 with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.

In this call, the UN official called on Merkel for greater European commitment to the fight against climate change, while praising the personal intervention of the president to achieve environmental objectives.

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