TENSE RELATIONSHIP: Merkel and Obama walk together during the G20 summit in St.Petersburg on Sept 6, 2013. Some German media have reported that Obama apologised to Merkel and told her that he would have stopped the bugging happening had he known about it. - Reuters
BERLIN: A German newspaper said on Sunday that US President Barack Obama knew his intelligence service was eavesdropping on Angela Merkel as long ago as 2010, contradicting reports that he had told the German leader he did not know.
Germany received information this week that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had bugged Merkel's mobile phone, prompting Berlin to summon the US ambassador, a move unprecedented in post-war relations between the close allies.
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