CIA 'turned phones, TVs into tapping devices'Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks yesterday began a new series of leaks on the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) hacking techniques and said the US spy agency turned Smart TVs and smartphones into surveillance equipment. The d More… |
Assange arbitrarily detained: UN panelWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid rape investigation in Sweden amounts to 'arbitrary detention', a United Nations panel will rule on Friday. Assa More… |
Assange to leave Ecuador embassy if he loses UN caseWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, and accept arrest on Friday if a UN panel investigating his case rules against him, he said in a stat More… |
WikiLeaks reveals diplomatic cables from SaudiWikiLeaks published on Friday more than 60,000 diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia and said on its website it would release half a million more in the coming weeks. The organisation, which began releasing US diplomatic cables in 2 More… |
WikiLeaker Manning says is femaleBradley Manning, sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified US documents in US history, said in a statement on Thursday he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. "As I transit More… |
US may open criminal probe into NSA leaksPresident Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, US officials said on Frid More… |
WikiLeaks releases hacked US detainee rulesThe WikiLeaks website began publishing on Thursday what it said were more than 100 US Defense Department files detailing military detention policies in camps in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in the years after the September 11 att More… |
Assange wins Ecuador asylum; UK angryEcuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest More… |
UK threatens to storm Ecuador embassyThe diplomatic standoff over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange escalated after Britain threatened to raid Ecuador's embassy in London if Quito did not hand over Assange, who has been taking refuge there for two months. More… |
Assange seeks asylum at Ecuador embassyWikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and asked for asylum, officials said on Tuesday, in a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime accusations. Ecuadorean Foreign Mi More… |