-
The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
Police Chief Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega says 34 miners died and 78 were wounded when police opened fire on strikers in one of the worst police shootings in South Africa since apartheid. Phiyega told a news conference Friday that her officers acted to...
-
SF Gate
| 9 months ago
The whole thing is bad because it's yet another step toward the escalation of tensions within society...Popular Russian author Boris Akunin , a supporter of Pussy Riot, a band whose three members were sentenced to two years in prison after briefly...
-
The Local
| 9 months ago
The problem is that they aren't going to give him the safe conduct," Rafael Correa said in a radio interview, adding that "Mr Assange can stay indefinitely in our embassy." Ecuador on Thursday granted political asylum to the 41-year-old Australian...
-
Russia Today
| 9 months ago
The American stance on the issue is hypocritical, as Washington regularly casts a blind eye on controversial sentences, activist Don DeBar told RT. Shortly after a Russian judge sentenced three Pussy Riot members to two years in prison for...
-
BBC
| 9 months ago
Ecuador split on asylum for Wikileaks' Julian Assange BBC News Protesters have come out in support of Julian Assange in the capital Quito A day after the decision to grant him asylum in Ecuador, Julian Assange's face looks out from every news stand...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The Government maintains it has no evidence that the US intends to try and extradite Julian Assange, despite a report which claims America is intent on pursuing him. The WikiLeaks founder remains holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, with Britain...
-
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Twenty-three countries voted on Friday for the resolution proposed by Ecuador to convene the meeting at its Washington headquarters to discuss Quito's stand-off with Britain over Assange...The vote was taken at emergency talks to discuss the Assange...
-
Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
17 August 2012 The farce over WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange may already have left taxpayers with a bill of 1million, it emerged last night. The staggering total is made up of legal, policing and court costs run up over two years as he fought...
-
Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
The story we get repeatedly from the press is that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London because he fears being sent by the British to Sweden to answer sex charges and then eventually being extradited to...
-
The independent
| 9 months ago
UK and Ecuador went into meltdown when Quito revealed the threat to arrest Mr Assange, regardless of his residence in the embassy building in Knightsbridge, under a previously little-known legal power. The Ecuadorean government retaliated by...
-
The independent
| 9 months ago
Suggested Topics It may be a major diplomatic incident, but for the people living near the Ecuadorean embassy, where Julian Assange, his supporters and the world's media are encamped, the circus is just an annoyance. The streets behind Harrods in...
-
Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Four activists supporting embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange conducted a sit-in protest on Friday inside the UK Consulate in Melbourne, Australia, as 20 others rallied downstairs...The US and Canada were among those who opposed the measure,...
-
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
THE United States says it does not believe in "diplomatic asylum" after Ecuador offered to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stay indefinitely in its embassy in London. Ecuador has turned to the Organisation of American States, which met on...
-
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Assange remained holed up in Ecuador's London embassy on Friday with police guarding its exits after the British government warned that a diplomatic standoff over the WikiLeaks founder could go on for years...British Foreign Secretary William Hague...
-
The Hindustan Times
| 9 months ago
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was said to be "doing all right" on Friday after a stormy day marked by an angry diplomatic tussle over him. But, by all accounts, his options were running out, with the British government digging its heels in to...
-
Miami Herald
| 9 months ago
Facebook's stock fell to $19 for the first time on Friday, losing half its market value since the company's initial public offering in May. Facebook Inc. has had a rocky initial public offering of stock. There were trading glitches on its first day...
-
Daily Nation
| 9 months ago
Rating Australian diplomats believe Washington is targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for possible prosecution, according to documents obtained by a newspaper. The Australian embassy in Washington is taking seriously the possibility that...
-
Sun Sentinel
| 9 months ago
The Miami Herald WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might live as a free man in Ecuador if he can ever get out of England. Shortly after the Andean nation granted Assange asylum Thursday, UK authorities said the controversial free-speech advocate would...
-
Asian Tribune
| 9 months ago
47 editor When the Government of Britain threatened the South American nation Ecuador that it will forcibly storm its embassy in London to get the WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange which was obvious to the entire political world that it was...
-
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features On Thursday afternoon, the atmosphere outside the Ecuadorean embassy was vibrant. Inside was Julian Assange , granted asylum by President Rafael Correa, presumably doing whatever it is he's been doing since he sought...
-
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
A Julian Assange supporter stakes her spot opposite the Ecuadorian embassy where he claimed asylum to avoid extradiction to Sweden to face rape allegations. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Ecuador is still willing to negotiate with the British...
-
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Edu Leon/CON/LatinContent/Getty Images The decision of Rafael Correa, Ecuador 's charismatic and often hot-tempered leader, to grant political asylum to Julian Assange has gone down well with his supporters, who see their small country taking the...
-
San Diego Union-Tribune
| 9 months ago
A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up a placard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entered the embassy in June in an attempt to gain political asylum...
-
International Business Times
| 9 months ago
There seems to be no end of finger-pointing and harsh words passing between three of the countries who'd like to decide the fate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. After Ecuador's announcement on Thursday that they would allow Assange asylum, both...
-
The Age
| 9 months ago
London has promised to abide by its obligations to enforce a European arrest warrant issued by Sweden for his extradition...Ecuador says Britain threatened to use the little-known Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 to revoke the diplomatic...
-
Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Instead, the insistence by Britain, Sweden and Australia that there is no more to this extradition than a purely criminal investigation is debatable. The Saturday Age reveals that Australia, as Assange's home country, has communicated with the US...
-
Ansa
| 9 months ago
Ecuador's decision to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum has created a diplomatic tussle between the Latin American country and the UK...Meanwhile Friday Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa defended his country's decision to offer...
-
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, is likely to gain politically from his decision to offer asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Thus far, much of the coverage of Julian Assange's successful political asylum...
-
Zee News
| 9 months ago
Ecuador has granted political asylum to Julian Assange over concerns that the WikiLeaks' founder could be transferred to the US and face death penalty after extradition to Sweden, said the Ecuadorian ambassador to Russia on Friday. "We cannot...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The Australian national was granted diplomatic asylum on Thursday night, with Ecuador's foreign minister declaring Mr Assange was a victim of political persecution. Britain says it is determined to arrest the WikiLeaks founder and extradite him to...
-
The Hindu
| 9 months ago
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange could appeal to the International Court of Justice at The Hague if Britain continued to refuse him safe passage to Ecuador where he has been granted asylum, his lawyer Baltasar Garzon said on Friday arguing that London...
-
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Article 22 spelling out the inviolability of diplomatic premises," the Russian foreign ministry said...British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said his government was obliged under its own law to extradite the Australian national to Sweden, where...
-
Democracy Now
| 9 months ago
You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. download: Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for...
-
Democracy Now
| 9 months ago
You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. download: Britain is refusing to give Julian Assange of WikiLeaks safe passage out of the country even though Ecuador has granted him political asylum. On Thursday, British...
-
Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for two months trying to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sexual offences claims by two women...His supporters fear that if he went to Sweden, he could...
-
Russia Today
| 9 months ago
British authorities have warned Ecuador that they could raid its embassy and arrest Julian Assange if he is not handed over. The Ecuadorian Foreign Minister responded by saying such a move would be a flagrant violation of international law...
-
Inter Press Service
| 9 months ago
Two months after he sought refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was formally granted asylum by Quito on Thursday...Credit: Espen Moe/CC BY 2.0 But with Sweden and the United States pursuing him for potential criminal...
-
The Local
| 9 months ago
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland declined comment on Ecuador's offer of asylum to Assange but rejected assertions by WikiLeaks and Quito that the Internet activist needed protection against the United States. "With regard to the charge...
-
Sky News
| 9 months ago
52pm UK, Thursday 16 August 2012 Key events in the two-year legal saga of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. July More than 91,000 documents, most of them secret US military reports about the war in Afghanistan, are released by WikiLeaks.org.
-
International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Ecuador said Thursday night the Union of South American Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss British threats to seize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from inside its embassy in London . Share This Story Ecuadorian President Rafael...
-
The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Aug. 16 2012, 7:30 PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Aug. 16 2012, 5:48 PM EDT Julian Assange's invocation of state power and international law, when he does not want to face a court, is in flagrant contradiction...
-
Inquirer.net
| 9 months ago
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, triggering a diplomatic confrontation with Britain, which angrily insisted it would extradite him to Sweden. Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said that Sweden might one day send Assange to the...
-
Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
45 British Foreign Secretary William Hague says that the United Kingdom will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the country, but his lawyer has said that prosecutors from Sweden, where he faces questioning in a sexual assault case, should...
-
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 9 months ago
Ecuador forcefully rejected British pressure to announce Thursday that it was granting political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London trying to avoid extradition...
-
Time of India
| 9 months ago
Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, foreign minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest the former hacker. Britain...
-
Rediff
| 9 months ago
E cuador on Thursday granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, setting stage for an unprecedented diplomatic stand-off with the UK, which has threatened to extradite him to Sweden come what may. Two months after he dramatically...
-
International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The 41-year-old, who has been staying in the Ecuador embassy in central London since 19 June to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexually assaulting two women, praised the "courageous" act of Ecuador...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The 41-year-old Australian has been holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London since June 19, when he claimed political asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over alleged sex crimes. Mr Assange believes that if he is...
-
Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Police stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy where Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, is seeking asylum on August 15, 2012 in London, England. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted asylum on Thursday by Ecuador, raising...
-
Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Ecuador said Thursday it would grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the controversial founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website who has been holed up for nearly two months inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in a bid to avoid...
