The US has monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders. Britain's Guardian newspaper on Thursday cited classified documents leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, as saying a US official provided the NSA with 200 phone numbers of 35 world leaders.

It added that staff in the White House, State Department and the Pentagon were urged to share the contact details of foreign politicians.

The document was an excerpt from a confidential memo dated October 2006. The identities of the politicians were not revealed. Reacting to the report, the White House said it would not comment publicly on every specific alleged intelligence activity and the US gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations.

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