German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the EU-CELAC summit in Brussels on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. European leaders and their Latin America and the Caribbean counterparts meet on a biannual basis in an effort to maintain international and economic ties. (AP Photo/Francois Lenoir/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany has dropped an investigation into alleged tapping of Angela Merkel's mobile phone by the US National Security Agency, saying there is not enough evidence to stand up in court.

Last June federal prosecutors opened an inquiry into the alleged monitoring of a phone used by the German Chancellor for party business after US whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked secrets about large-scale US surveillance in 2013.



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