London: A London court will rule on Wednesday whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who angered the government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, can be extradited from Britain to Sweden for questioning over alleged sexual crimes. Swedish authorities want to quiz the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two former female volunteers for his WikiLeaks organization. The case has cast a shadow over Assange and...
09:16 AM, Nov 02, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will get to know on November 2 whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct in that country, the court hearing the case in London said on Friday. Lawyers for Assange, 40, have insisted that his extradition to Sweden would be "unfair and unlawful". He is wanted in Sweden to answer accusations of raping one woman and sexually molesting and...
06:37 PM, Oct 28, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn next week of the verdict in his fight against his extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct, the organization said on Thursday. WikiLeaks staffer Joseph Farrell said that Britain's High Court had informed Assange it will deliver judgment on his appeal on November 2, "The court told us. We have no further details," Farrell said in a text message. In February,...
05:21 AM, Oct 28, 2011
London: The whistleblower website WikiLeaks that has rattled many across the world by publishing numerous secret documents on Monday announced the 'temporary' stoppage of its work and blamed US financial companies for the drastic move. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made the announcement here and vowed to fight back the economic blockade. His group also issued a statement saying it would stop publishing in order to focus on making money explaining...
06:24 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Lima (Peru): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described as nonsense reports of defections from his organisation and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement. Addressing a meeting of the Inter American Press Association in Peru on Monday via Internet video hookup from Britain, Assange said WikiLeaks' biggest problem was the ban on processing contributions by credit card companies and PayPal. "We have not cut any staff," he said,...
08:06 AM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: The entry of foreign studios and availability of multiple financing options have built up unrealistic expectations, especially with regard to actors' salaries, whistleblower WikiLeaks said in a leaked cable recently made public. The February, 2010 cable with the subject 'can the Indian film industry go global?' is a detailed trade analysis of the risks and scope of the worlds largest film industry and explores the changing dynamics of...
05:25 PM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: As Julian Assange's WikiLeaks continues to cause embarrassment to governments across the globe, its latest target is the world's largest maker of movies Bollywood, the reference of which appears in several of the leaked embassy cables made public by the whistleblowing website. Many of the cables are surprisingly succinct and contain detailed analysis of the Indian film industry that churns out almost 1000 films a year and generates...
12:02 AM, Sep 07, 2011
A WikiLeaks cable had said that Mayawati sent a private jet to Mumbai to get a pair of sandals for herself. ...
11:41 PM, Sep 06, 2011
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11:28 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Mayawati called WikiLeaks' owner mad after the cable revealed that she sent a private jet to Mumbai to get her a pair of sandals. ...
10:08 PM, Sep 06, 2011
UP Chief Minsiter Mayawati says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a lunatic to suggest that she sent her private jet to Mumbai to pick up her favourite pair of footwear. ...
08:48 PM, Sep 06, 2011
London: WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables on Friday, much if not all of it uncensored, a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the anti-secrecy group's efforts to expose corruption and double-dealing. Many media outlets, previously had access to all or part of the uncensored tome. But WikiLeaks' decision to post the 251,287 cables on its website makes...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2011
London: Uncensored copies of WikiLeaks' massive tome of US State Department cables circulated freely on Thursday across the Internet, leaving a whole new batch of US sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution. The United States, meanwhile, denied ever cooperating with the anti-secrecy group, and blasted Wikileaks for allegedly threatening national security and the safety of confidential informants. WikiLeaks has blamed Britain's the Guardian newspaper for the breach, saying that...
10:47 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Washington: The WikiLeaks organization said Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. "We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to be controlled by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' controversial Australian-born founder and chief. The cables which the...
07:35 AM, Aug 26, 2011
London: WikiLeaks and the Icelandic IT company DataCell filed a formal complaint to the European Commission on Thursday, saying payment companies Visa Europe and MasterCard Inc violated EU antitrust laws by blocking donations. Visa Europe, which runs the largest card network in the European Union, and MasterCard blocked WikiLeaks from using its network to collect funds from donors in December 2010. The complaint, filed to the Directorate-General for Competition of...
11:09 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Lawyers for Julian Assange on Wednesday focused their fight against the WikiLeaks chief's extradition to Sweden on technicalities - trying to punch holes through the warrant seeking his arrest. Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning on allegations of rape and molestation, a prosecution he and his supporters claim is being manipulated to political ends - possibly with an eye toward sending him to the United States, where he's...
03:41 AM, Jul 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday asked the High Court to block his 'legally flawed' extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Assange challenged a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London that extradition should go ahead. Ben Emmerson, lawyer appearing for Assange, 40, told two judges the European arrest warrant on which he was being held was flawed because it...
05:54 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country. A video released by WikiLeaks claim that three cameras have been erected outside the entrance of his temporary home in Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, to keep track of people visiting him. "We suddenly noticed them appearing since we have been here. We believe they are monitoring everything...
08:15 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Melbourne: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's Gold Medal for "exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights". According to a Foundation statement on Wednesday, veteran Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis praised WikLeaks as an "ingenious and heroic website that has shifted the power balance between citizen and the state by exposing what governments really get up to in out name". Acknowledging that "exposing secrets can...
12:39 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: While Congress on Wednesday dismissed WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange's remarks about the Indian black money stashed in Swiss banks, saying it will not join issue with individuals or comment on "hearsay", BJP alleged the UPA government was not making any effort to bring it back despite being pulled up by the Supreme Court. "At the last count, there are 130 embassies and high commissions in New Delhi. If...
04:42 PM, Apr 27, 2011
