PARIS: France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from Washington following fresh, “shocking” spying allegations leaked by former United States (US) security contractor Edward Snowden.

The reports in French daily Le Monde and German weekly Der Spiegel revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) secretly recorded tens of millions of phone calls in France and hacked into former Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s email account.

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