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August Hanning, the former president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), appears as a witness before the NSA investigative committee at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin on Oct. 1, 2015.
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Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason
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A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.
A voter casts their ballot inside the Arlington County Courthouse on Sept. 18, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia.
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