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Early reports on Wednesday indicated that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden obtained permission to leave the transit area of a Moscow Airport, after authorities issued documents allowing him to cross the border into Russia, but his attorney Anatoly Kucherena said that he has not received all of the proper documents that would allow him to leave a Moscow airport's transit area, CNN reported. Kucherena, who helped Snowden file his bid for temporary asylum in the country on July 16, hand delivered documentation that allowed him to clear immigration at the airport.

Federal prosecutors in New York charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda Islamist currently at large, with crimes related to an attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead.

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in disgrace in 2011 after sending lewd messages to women online, has admitted to sending additional sexual messages that surfaced on the Internet this week.