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Snowden, who exposed classified U.S. programs that collect telephone and Internet data, has been in Sheremetyevo airport's transit area since June 23.

You might want to bring along your own toilet paper.

It remains unclear how the world's most famous refugee would be able to leave the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, where he has been marooned without valid documents since he arrived from Hong Kong on June 23.

Bolvia's Morales, referring to the U.S.: "We don't need them, we've got other allies."

Venezuela's Maduro said he was offering asylum so that the former National Security Agency contractor could live "free of imperial North American persecution."

Vladimir Putin, who has disagreed with the Obama administration on its handling of the Syrian conflict and plans to develop a missile-defense shield in Europe, tried to distance himself from the case.

Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, and the U.S. sought his arrest on Friday.

Neighborhoods were thrashed by a tornado that, six days ago, touched down and slashed through homes, schools, a hospital and the lives of thousands.

At least 20 children killed, state medical examiner's office said.