[02:08.32]President Obama defended the US.
[02:10.98]"Wherever there is an intelligence service, here’s one thing that they are going to be doing.
[02:14.70]They are seeking additional insight beyond what’s available through open sources.
[02:18.59]If that weren’t the case, then there’d be no use for an intelligence service.
[02:22.42]And I guarantee that in European capitals, there are people who are interested in,
[02:27.18]if not what I had for breakfast, at least what my talking points might be, should I end up meeting with their leaders.
[02:32.95]That’s how intelligence services operate.”
[02:35.60]The director of the scandal-hit Vatican bank and his deputy have resigned three days after the arrest of a senior cleric accused of plotting to smuggle $26m.
[02:46.96]The Vatican said Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli stepped down in the interest of the bank and of the Holy See.
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[03:00.08]A suicide bomb attack inside a Shiite mosque in Iraq has killed at least 22 people.
[03:06.55]The evening attack happened in the town of Muqdadiyah about 80km north-east of the capital Baghdad in Diyala province.
[03:14.01]Iraq has been suffering its worst sectarian violence in several years.
[03:17.96]The Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar, the main architect of the country’s unpopular austerity policies, has resigned from the government.