India Rejects Snowden’s Asylum Request

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India said Tuesday that it has turned down the asylum request submitted to the country by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the Associated Press reported.

The announcement is the latest setback for the 30-year-old former government contractor, whose hopes of finding refuge appear to be growing increasingly long. Reports out of Moscow, where Snowden has been staying for more than a week, indicated that he withdrew his asylum application to Russia after several European countries turned him down.

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