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• Decision on Assange's extradition today

  Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, arrived at a London court on Thursday to find out if he is to be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. The verdict will mark a turning point in the three-month battle in the British courts and the media against what Mr. Assange, his legal team and his celebrity supporters say is a conspirac...

• Sweden aims to extradite Assange to US

  Julian Assange's lawyer in Britain has accused Swedish authorities of secretly planning to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States, in an interview with a German newspaper to appear tomorrow.Attorney Mark Stephens told the weekly Die Zeit that he believed Swedish officials were cooperating with US authorities with an eye to extraditing...

• FBI in hunt for pro-WikiLeaks hackers: Report

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined the hunt for hackers who took down websites like PayPal, after they stopped processing payments to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, US media reports said.The Smoking Gun website published five pages of an FBI affidavit, detailing an operation that took US federal investigators to Europe, Canada...

• US Air Force blocks sites that posted secret cables

  The Air Force is barring its personnel from using work computers to view the Web sites of The New York Times and more than 25 other news organizations and blogs that have posted secret cables obtained by WikiLeaks, Air Force officials said Tuesday.When Air Force personnel on the service's computer network try to view the Web sites of The ...

• 6 lakh sign WikiLeaks petition as Assange braces for court

  Almost 600,000 people had signed an online petition in support of WikiLeaks, ahead of a second appearance in court in London by the whistle-blowingwebsite's founder, Julian Assange.The petition on campaigning website Avaaz calls on the US and other nations to "stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners immediately" and to respect "the laws of...

• WikiLeaks taps power of the press

  Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?Perhaps. Or maybe it was the other way around. Think back to 2008, when WikiLeaks simply released documents that suggested the government of Kenya had looted its country. The follow-up in the mainstream media was decidedly muted. Then last spring, WikiLeaks adopted a more journalistic approach -- editin...

• WikiLeaks to target major US bank next

  WikiLeaks plans to release thousands of internal documents from a major US bank in early 2011, Forbes magazine reported Monday.Julian Assange, the founder of the self-proclaimed whistleblower website, told Forbes: "We have one related to a bank coming up, that's a megaleak."It's not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it's either tens or hundr...

• Outraged lawmakers demand WikiLeaks be shutdown

  Cutting across party lines, US lawmakers expressed their outrage at what they called "illegal" publication of classified American documents by WikiLeaks, and asked the Obama Administration to use all legal means to shut down this whistleblower website."The release of classified information under these circumstances is a reckless action which jeopar...

• US spying on UN leadership: WikiLeaks

  The US is engaged in a spying campaign against the leadership of the UN, according to leaked diplomatic cables published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on its blog Sunday.The blog said a directive issued under Hillary Rodham Clinton's name last year ordered American diplomats to seek details about both UN communication systems and personal details...

• Assange on Wikileaks' Iraq war logs

  In the largest leaks of classified military documents in American history the whistleblower website Wikileaks released the 'The Iraq War Logs'. It accuses US forces of having failed to stop numerous cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi authorities. The leaks also point that 60 per cent of deaths in Iraq were those of civilians.This means 31 civilians h...