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		</div><p>Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified documents detailing government surveillance programmes, is calling on French President Emmanuel Macron to grant him asylum.</p>
<p>Mr Snowden, now living in Russia to avoid prosecution in the United States, stressed in an interview broadcast today on France’s Inter radio that “protecting whistleblowers is not a hostile act”, and that he feels entitled to get protected status in France.</p>
<p>Mr Snowden unsuccessfully applied for asylum in France in 2013 under Mr Macron’s predecessor, Francois Hollande.</p>
<p>He has also sought asylum in several other countries.</p>
<p>Mr Snowden’s memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time, will be released Tuesday in about 20 countries, including France.</p>
<p>The French presidency did not comment.</p>
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