London: A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, saying he wanted to draw attention to financial abuses. Rudolf Elmer, 55, headed the office of Julius Baer in the Cayman Islands until he was fired by the bank in 2002. He is scheduled to go on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday for breaching bank secrecy. Swiss...
08:15 AM, Jan 18, 2011
London: China is the "technological enemy" of WikiLeaks and not the United States, according to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website which is fighting a running battle to penetrate the aggressive and sophisticated Chinese censorship. "China is the worst offender," when it comes to censorship, says the controversial Australian hacker, now on bail in Britain fighting attempts to extradite him to Sweden over claims of sexual assaults. The...
11:45 AM, Jan 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden over claims he sexually assaulted two women, appeared in a court on Tuesday and expressed his readiness to fight extradition from the UK. The defence team of the 39-year-old Australian, who denies the charges, was ready for a two-day extradition case, which was set for February 7 and 8 during a hearing at a court here, his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said. District...
06:29 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: Iceland called in the US ambassador in Reykjavik on Monday to register its displeasure at a US court's demand for details of an Icelandic lawmaker's Twitter account, the US State Department said. A US court has ordered the social networking website to give up details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and of several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks' release of hundreds of thousands of US...
12:02 PM, Jan 11, 2011
London: Julian Assange is due to appear in court again in the extradition case. The whistle-blower website founder will be produced in a London court on Tuesday. He has been booked for sexual offences. The prime issue will be the confirmation of bail for him and his supporters expect that as clearly he hasn't absconded as the Swedish prosecutor had argued. The question then before the court is that if...
07:25 AM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. The December 14 subpoena obtained by the US Department of Justice and published by online magazine Salon.com on Friday said the records sought from the microblogging website were "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." It...
10:55 AM, Jan 09, 2011
London: WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received, a media report said Saturday. The demand came after it emerged that a US court had ordered Twitter to hand over details of accounts on the micro-blogging site by five people associated with the group, including Julian Assange. Amid strong evidence that a US grand jury has begun a wide-ranging trawl...
10:48 AM, Jan 09, 2011
London: US officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, the group announced on Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said US investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and...
10:05 PM, Jan 08, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has signed a book deal with a British publisher to give a "highly personal" account of his life story, it was announced on Friday. Assange, who is currently on bail in Britain pending court proceedings over an extradition request from Sweden on assault charges, said he hoped the book would prove to be a "unifying document". Publishers Canongate Books, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, said it...
06:09 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Sydney: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiring a public relations firm after a series of damaging blows to his image, a media report said in Sydney on Saturday. Assange, who is on bail in Britain and facing extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, has taken a battering in the media in recent weeks as his personal life is scrutinised, the Australian news agency AAP reported. Assange's team has decided...
05:36 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Dubai: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought some kind of nuclear fuel swap deal more than a year ago, but faced internal pressures from hard-liners who viewed it as a "virtual defeat," according to US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. The report, available on the WikiLeaks website on Tuesday, also suggested Iran trusted its arch-foe the United States more than ally Russia to follow through with the UN-backed proposal: providing reactor-ready...
07:46 PM, Jan 04, 2011
London: Cyber activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading. President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from US cables on WikiLeaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The activists, acting under the name Anonymous, said in a statement on...
12:38 PM, Dec 31, 2010
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he's being forced into penning an autobiography to keep his organization from going under. New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Monday that it had struck a deal with the 39-year-old Australian to bring out his autobiography, whose publication date has yet to be determined. Assange, speaking to The Sunday Times, said the deal would bring in more than $1 million, with $800,000...
12:55 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New Delhi: According to the Global Language Monitor, the word 'WikiLeaks' appeared sporadically in the global media in 2006. But now it has been cited more than 300 million times, even with a quick Google search. This after it met the requisite criteria of geographic reach as well as "depth and breadth" of recorded usage of the English language. The word 'wiki' is Hawaiian in origin and is usually defined...
10:44 AM, Dec 28, 2010
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07:08 PM, Dec 23, 2010
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07:08 PM, Dec 23, 2010
London: US officials panicked on hearing a rumour that a New Zealand cabinet minister was hosting the screening of documentary maker Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" and they termed it a "potential fiasco", reveals a US cable that was put out by WikiLeaks. The classified cable from the US embassy in Wellington in 2003 reports a string of calls to the New Zealand prime minister's office and to the minister...
03:27 PM, Dec 23, 2010
New York: A former spokesman for WikiLeaks is ready to tell all. Crown Publishers announced that Daniel Domscheit-Berg, otherwise known as Daniel Schmitt, has a book coming out in February. The book is called "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website." Crown says it "will reveal the evolution, finances and inner tensions" of the organization that obtains and posts confidential government documents. Schmitt met...
12:12 PM, Dec 23, 2010
Charlotte: WikiLeaks' next data release, early next year, is widely expected to centre on Bank of America Corp (BofA). WikiLeaks Editor In Chief Julian Assange - currently under house arrest in England - touched off a fevered wave of speculation last month, when he disclosed the group would follow up its release of 250,000 diplomatic cables from the US government in November with a look at the financial sector. Assange...
11:54 AM, Dec 23, 2010
