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| U.S. spy agency wiretapped two French finance ministers - Wikileaks |
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 The U.S. National Security Agency wiretapped the communications of two successive French finance ministers and collected information on French export contracts, trade and budget talks, according to a report by WikiLeaks. The transparency website said the ministers targeted were Francois Baroin and Pierre Moscovici, who between them headed the finance ministry from 2011 to 2014. The allegations, published jointly with newspaper Liberation and online outlet Mediapart, came a week after Wikileaks reported that the NSA had spied on three French presidents from at least 2006 to May 2012, prompting the government to protest to Washington that such behaviour between allies was unacceptable.
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| Smoking ban sparks riot at Australian prison |
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| Hundreds of inmates at a maximum security prison in Melbourne rioted on Tuesday and prison staff were evacuated after, according to media reports, a protest against a smoking ban at the facility spun out of control. Television footage from the prison in Ravenhall, a suburb of Melbourne, showed prisoners with their faces covered, carrying sticks as makeshift weapons, while smoke was also seen. The inmates remain contained within the grounds and a number of police units are currently on scene including the Air wing." The smoking ban, being imposed at prisons across the state, was due to take effect at Ravenhall on Tuesday. |
| In? Out? In between? A Greek legal riddle for EU |
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 By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has told Greeks that saying 'No' to a bailout deal would be a vote to ditch the euro. The conflict is driving the European Union into legal limbo and no one has a clear answer as to what could happen next. The government in Greece, where a majority of people say they want to retain the euro currency and their 35-year-old membership of the European Union, correctly points out that neither the treaty creating the now 19-member euro zone nor the agreement binding the 28 member states of the EU, contains provisions for expelling any country.
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