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| Snowden case: Spain allows Evo Morales jet to fly over | Snowden case: Spain allows Evo Morales jet to fly over |
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| Spain has opened its airspace to Bolivian president Evo Morales' plane, after it was diverted to Austria amid suspicions Edward Snowden was on board. | Spain has opened its airspace to Bolivian president Evo Morales' plane, after it was diverted to Austria amid suspicions Edward Snowden was on board. |
| Austrian officials said the plane was searched and Mr Snowden, wanted by the US for leaking secrets, was not there. | Austrian officials said the plane was searched and Mr Snowden, wanted by the US for leaking secrets, was not there. |
| Bolivia has been enraged by Mr Morales' treatment, and has asked for a crisis meeting of South American leaders. | Bolivia has been enraged by Mr Morales' treatment, and has asked for a crisis meeting of South American leaders. |
| Mr Snowden is reportedly seeking asylum in Bolivia and several other countries to avoid extradition to the US. | Mr Snowden is reportedly seeking asylum in Bolivia and several other countries to avoid extradition to the US. |
| He is still believed to be in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. | |
| Mr Morales was flying back to Bolivia from Moscow, where he had been holding talks with gas-exporting nations, when his plane was diverted. | |
| Bolivia accused officials in France, Portugal, Spain and Italy of blocking the plane from flying over their territories. | |
| But France denied refusing the plane permission, and Spain subsequently said its airspace was open to the jet. | |
| Mr Snowden is wanted by the US on charges of leaking secrets he gathered while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), America's electronic spying agency. | |
| The leaking of thousands of classified intelligence documents prompted revelations that the US has been systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data. | |
| National Intelligence Director James Clapper apologised on Tuesday for telling Congress in March that the NSA did not have a policy of gathering data on millions of Americans. | |
| He said in a letter to the Senate intelligence committee that his answer had been "clearly erroneous". |