London: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that Britain had prevented NSA leaker Edward Snowden from flying to London out of loyalty to its ally, the United States.
In an interview given to Reuters and others ahead of the first anniversary of his seeking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Assange said he was concerned by reports that Britain had told airlines to stop Snowden from flying to London.
A spokesman for Britain's Home Office declined to comment on reports Britain had told airlines around the world to block Snowden, as did a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron.
"The British government refused entry to this country of Edward Snowden. Why? Presumably because it doesn't want to end up with another Julian Assange," Assange said....
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12:15 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: WikiLeaks returned to haunt the Congress party on Monday which trashed reports claiming that Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman for a Swedish aircraft company before entering politics but the Opposition demanded that the "truth" be made public. The Congress made it clear that the reports had no basis whatsoever, with party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi referring to the last line of the leaked WikiLeaks cable to emphasise that...
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11:28 PM, Apr 03, 2013
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07:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
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12:20 PM, Mar 28, 2013
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10:50 AM, Mar 01, 2013
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05:30 PM, Feb 13, 2013
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11:31 AM, Feb 13, 2013
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10:43 AM, Jan 31, 2013
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11:25 AM, Jan 26, 2013
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07:53 AM, Jan 26, 2013
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10:44 AM, Jan 24, 2013
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09:28 AM, Dec 21, 2012
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06:09 AM, Dec 21, 2012
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Former Swiss bank employee Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list, told CNN-IBN on Sunday that the list included Indian politicians, cricketers and film stars. ...
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