Sydney: The founder and leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, plans to run for a seat in Australia's upper house of Parliament, the anti-secrecy group announced on Twitter on Saturday. The comments could not be immediately confirmed. Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for...
03:34 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Sydney: The founder and leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, plans to run for a seat in Australia's Upper House of Parliament, the anti-secrecy group announced on Twitter on Saturday. The comments could not be immediately confirmed. Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for...
05:23 PM, Mar 17, 2012
London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....
07:28 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Washington: Denouncing the disclosure of its emails by Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, as "deplorable breach of privacy", the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor cautioned that some of them may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies. In a video message to Stratfor subscribers, founder and CEO, George Friedman said that his resignation email was forged. "Emails sent to many people about my resignation were clearly forged," he said. Friedman said in...
09:41 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Whistle blower website Wikileaks is making headlines again. It has released more than 5 million confidential email transactions from the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, showing Dow Chemicals used the firm to keep tabs on online activities of Bhopal gas tragedy activists. Wikileaks claims that these emails prove that Dow used Startfor to spy on Bhopal gas tragedy activists to subvert their campaign and to deny the victims justice....
08:17 AM, Feb 28, 2012
India's special envoy Madhusudhan Ganpathi has taken up the matter with the Norwegian Foreign Minister in Oslo. ...
10:36 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday claimed to have in possession 'millions' of Stratfor mails that establish its links with Dow Chemicals, one of the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Stratfor is a US-based intelligence firm. WikiLeaks alleged that it had proof that Stratfor monitored and analysed online activities of the Bhopal activists, reportedly on Dow's asking. One of the activists, Rachna Dhingra said that she...
07:21 PM, Feb 27, 2012
London: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers. WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of internal and external correspondence of Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) of Austin, Texas. Hackers linked to the group Anonymous said at the beginning of 2012 that they had stolen the email correspondence...
11:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Fort Meade: US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in US history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment on Thursday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life. In Thursday's procedure, Manning, 24, was formally charged with 22 counts including aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet and theft...
08:21 AM, Feb 24, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday. On the final day of hearings to determine whether the Australian is freed from house arrest in Britain or flown out to face Swedish investigators, Clare Montgomery told the justices they could set a legal...
12:14 AM, Feb 03, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's hearing entered the final stage on Wednesday. Assange appealed for the third time to the Britain's Supreme Court not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes - a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion. Australian-born Assange, 40, became a worldwide celebrity and infuriated the US government in 2010 when WikiLeaks released secret video footage and thousands of US...
04:34 PM, Feb 01, 2012
This will be the third but not necessarily the last stage in Julian Assange's attempts to resist extradition to Sweden. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 01, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes, a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion. Australian-born Assange, 40, became a worldwide celebrity and infuriated the US government in 2010 when WikiLeaks released secret video footage and thousands of US diplomatic cables about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then,...
08:28 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Moscow: The Kremlin's English-language television station has revealed that it will be broadcasting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new television show. Wikileaks announced earlier this week that Assange was hosting a talk show to begin airing in March, but there was no word on who would carry the show or how it would be produced. RT television announced Wednesday that it would broadcast the show, a series of 10 interviews with...
05:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced that he will soon host a television series comprising interviews with 'key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries' from around the world. Assange, who is currently awaiting hearing in the Supreme Court against his extradition to Sweden, said the 10-part series would be based on 'the world tomorrow"' and feature interviews with "iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders". The theme of the series will be...
03:42 PM, Jan 24, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court said on Friday it had agreed to hear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations. The court said a panel of three judges had considered a written submission and granted a two-day appeal beginning on February 1, meaning there is no prospect of Assange being sent to Stockholm until at least next year. In a statement, the court said it...
06:23 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Maryland: An American Army intelligence analyst accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified US documents to WikiLeaks for public disclosure made his first court appearance on Friday to face charges including aiding the enemy, which could send him to prison for life. Private First Class Bradley Manning, charged with supplying WikiLeaks with massive dumps of classified US documents, sat quietly in the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, wearing military...
03:19 AM, Dec 17, 2011
London: Britain's Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial body, said on Friday it had granted permission for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. Swedish authorities want to question the 40-year-old Australian, whose website's activities have infuriated the United States, over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers in August 2010. Assange, who has been living in...
12:17 AM, Dec 17, 2011
London High Court ruled that Julian Assange can fight his extradition to Sweden now in Britain's top court. ...
08:55 AM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: The UK High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal to the Supreme against his extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes. Assange had sought to have his case referred to Britain's Supreme Court. Swedish authorities want to question the WikiLeaks founder over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers during a visit...
04:31 PM, Dec 05, 2011
