“US spied on 35 world leaders” reveals The Guardian in the latest twist in the National Security Agency (NSA) bugging scandal.

According to confidential documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, a confidential US memo asked senior government officials to provide the spy agency with telephone numbers for senior international politicians so they could be monitored.

The revelation comes just days after claims the NSA tapped the mobile telephone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and amid an ongoing European Council summit. An editorial in The Guardian adds that –