LONDON (AP) — A British judge granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, saying he must abide by strict bail conditions as he fights extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee.
If Amazon.com won't host leaked diplomatic cables posted by the website WikiLeaks, Michael Moore will. The liberal filmmaker and author announced in a web posting he had donated $20,000 to the cause of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' embattled chief
Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee.
Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder) will appear in court today, a week after being held in a UK jail over allegations which state he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden. "The Crown Prosecution Service" will represent the Swedish authorities in th
Adrienne Pine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University specializing in Latin America. She said today: "Cables released by WikiLeaks have painted a stark picture of State Department activities throughout the Americas.
Adrienne Pine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University specializing in Latin America. She said today: "Cables released by WikiLeaks have painted a stark picture of State Department activities throughout the Americas.
According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis.
Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder. (Compared to Obama?.... Duh.)
US officials offered to help Spain claim an undersea treasure haul of gold and silver coins discovered by a controversial American exploration company in return for Spanish assistance in the recovery of valuable art looted by Nazi Germany, according
A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after he vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
Despite Assange’s legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted t
What should really disturb us is the implications — not for our diplomacy, but for the competence and effectiveness of our own counter-espionage. There are really two possibilities: we’ve either, in the name of “sharing,” completely forgotten all
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police as part of a Swedish sex-crimes investigation. Assange surrendered at 9:30 a.m. (930 GMT) Tuesday and is due to appear in Court later today. Julian Assange has been on the run since
How Wikileaks is copying 16th-century Amsterdam ... There is nothing particularly novel about what Wikileaks is actually doing – it is actually rather primitive journalism – though none the less brilliant for it....
A group of Internet activists calling themselves Operation Payback have taken credit for shutting down the website of a bank that earlier Monday froze funds belonging to WikiLeaks.
MasterCard is pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing Web site. "MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded produc
The Swiss postal system has pulled the plug on WikiLeaks' bank account in another serious setback for the secret-spilling website that is fighting to stay online.
An official with Swiss Post in the Swiss capital of Bern told The Associated Press o
The backlash against WikiLeaks intensifed today after payments site PayPal revealed it had frozen WikiLeaks' account, saying it was being used to "encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity".
The company, owned
For those of you that are cognizant enough to be following the Wikileaks story, it is an historical event that we are experiencing. As more and more specific information is being analyzed and reported, the information is clearly portraying a very dif
Prosecutors 'making it up as they go along' - A lawyer who recently represented Julian Assange says the Swedish sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on claims he didn't use condoms during sex with two Swedish women.
If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he's succeeded: the ongoing distributed denial of service attack against Wikileaks has forced a move to a fortified data center encased in a cold war-era, nuke-proof b
Amazon dropped WikiLeaks from its servers this week, according to the muckraking Web site's twitter feed. "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted," read a WikiLeaks tweet posted around 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
Never one to miss out on a business opportunity, today's trove of WikiLeaks documents reveal that Blackwater, the law-bending international security firm, wanted to try its hand in Somali pirate hunting, but ultimately dropped the effort after a lack
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has created a media storm after releasing 250,000 classified US diplomatic documents. Details of the papers reveal scathing criticism of many world leaders by US diplomats.
Following the latest baring of US secrets on the Internet, Congress is poised to pass legislation giving employees in the most sensitive government jobs a way to report corruption, waste and mismanagement without turning to outside organizations like