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U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm some business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of the Web.
Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance last year.
On 31 January 2014, Icelandic parlimentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Chairperson for the Icelandic Pirate Party, published a nomination letter signed by herself, the two other Pirate Party members of the Icelandic Parliament (Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson and Jón Þór Ólafsson) and the two Swedish Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament (Amelia Andersdotter and Christian Engström). The letter jointly nominates Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pirate Party’s MPs and MEPs.
Also on 31 January 2014 – the final day for nominations – the Green / European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament announced that Edward Snowden was their nomination for the Prize. The Green / EFA group has 58 MEPs, making it the Parliament’s fourth largest.
The British detectives who have examined the records of mobile of thousands of people who were in Praia da Luz in May 2007 describe the phone analysis as "compelling".
Edward Snowden’s planned testimony to the European Parliament via a video link may be thwarted by deputies’ fear of a negative reaction from the US, the German news magazine Der Spiegel writes on its website.
The European Parliament is holding hearings over the spying furore that erupted in Europe after the publication of the data provided by the US whistleblower in October. Snowden claimed to have documents which proved that the US National Security Agency tapped cellphone calls of at least 35 heads of state and government across the world, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Snowden’s videoconference was planned for December 18. However, the European People's Party (EPP), the largest party in the European Parliament, is trying to prevent his appearance for fear of a negative US reaction.