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Ecuador says WikiLeaks’ Assange suffering lung problems

(Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from a chronic lung ailment that could worsen at any time and is being checked regularly by doctors, the Andean country’s ambassador to Britain said on Wednesday. Assange, 41, whose website angered … read more »

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The Persecution of Wikileaks

by JAMES ROTHENBERG The just finished Banned Books Week serves as a vivid reminder that we must be vigilant about freedom of expression and freedom from censorship. Absent this vigilance, we could wake up in a society that not only … read more »

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WikiLeaks’ 16th minute

By Jack Shafer This piece originally appeared in Reuters Magazine, a special edition publication ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In late October, a deflated Julian Assange called a press conference in London to announce he may … read more »

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Autobiography of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a sales flop

It was the book the founder of WikiLeaks said was published to ‘screw’ him for cash but despite huge publicity surrounding its release it has become a sales flop. Julian Assange’s unauthorised autobiography came out last week but just 644 … read more »

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U.S. Official: Wikileaks Revelations ‘Embarrassing But Not Damaging’

Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary. A congressional official briefed on the reviews said the administration … read more »

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Assange seduced third girl – claim

Julian Assange seduced a third girl in the same week he bedded two women at the centre of sex assault allegations, it was claimed on Sunday. The self-assured WikiLeaks boss allegedly stole her from under the nose of an American … read more »

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WikiLeaks suspect ‘not mistreated’

The United States military has denied mistreating an army private suspected of passing hundreds of thousands of classified US documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Bradley Manning has been held in solitary confinement at a US Marine prison near Washington … read more »

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WikiLeaks founder threatens to release entire cache of unfiltered files

At the centre of a tightening web of death threats, sex-crime accusations and high-level demands for a treason trial, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to unleash a “thermonuclear device” of completely unexpurgated government files if he is forced to appear … read more »

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PayPal cuts Wikileaks access for donations

The online payments processor, PayPal, says it has cut access for donations to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. PayPal said its payment service cannot be used for activities “that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity”. Wikileaks’ … read more »

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Julian Assange: Who is he?

Who is he?: An Australian Internet activist and former hacker who is on the advisory board of the secretive Sweden-based website WikiLeaks and also the editor-in-chief of the site, which posts confidential documents. Through the high-profile document dumps of U.S. … read more »

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Behind Attacks on Qaeda in Yemen

The United States was secretly given permission from Yemen’s president to attack the al Qaeda group in his country that later attempted to blow up planes in American air space. President Ali Abdullah Saleh told John Brennan, President Obama’s counterterrorism … read more »

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Can WikiLeaks be prosecuted for leaking government documents?

The third large release of documents from the shadowy website WikiLeaks on Nov. 28, 2010, shared more than 250,000 sensitive diplomatic cables and directives from the U.S. State Department, and followed large dumps of documents from the Afghanistan and Iraq … read more »

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WikiLeaks Founder Arrest Warrant Confirmed: Swedish Court

LONDON — Sweden’s highest court refused on Thursday to grant permission for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, to appeal a court order seeking his arrest to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, news reports said. State’s … read more »

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