A Filipino woman who sheltered Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, when he fled to Hong Kong has been granted asylum in Canada, where she arrived on Monday with her daughter.

The woman, Vanessa Mae Bondalian Rodel, was part of a group of asylum seekers in Hong Kong who briefly allowed Mr. Snowden to stay in their homes in 2013.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/world/canada/edward-snowden-hong-kong-asylum-canada.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

The town hall of Augsburg, Kaiserslautern, Chemnitz, Göttingen, Neunkirchen and Rendsburg have been affected by a lockdown, sparked after local authorities received anonymous bomb threats in the early hours of Tuesday

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1105336/Germany-news-lockdown-terror-threats-kaiserslautern-augsburg-redsburg

The one-page reports, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, were submitted to the council’s North Korea sanctions committee in compliance with a 2017 resolution that demanded the repatriation of all North Korean workers by the end of this year to stop them earning foreign currency for leader Kim Jong Un’s authorities.

The United States has said it believed Pyongyang was earning more than $500 million a year from nearly 100,000 workers abroad, of which some 80,000 were in China and 30,000 in Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-sanctions-un-exclusive-idUSKCN1R70AT?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c99f26a4b738500018cd023&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter