WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has slam a UK based publisher for allegedly releasing the drafts of his autobiography without his consent. Assange said the publisher has breach the contract without his permission.
With revelations that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer that may kill him within two years, the race for succession in Zimbabwe is set to get even more heated.
Wikileak's have tried to dispel rumours that their founder Julian Assange has been charged, lashing out at News Corporation's publications.
An interview with Julian Assange from December 2009 reveals the Wikileak's founder's view on the NOTW hacking scandal at the time.
AntiSec hacking collective Anonymous' new OpPayPal has reportedly led to as many as 20,000 users shutting down their PayPal account.
AntiSec hackers Anonymous and LulzSec have mounted a fresh three-stage campaign against PayPal, promising a subsequent follow up attack on eBay.
Prince Andrew is expected to stand down as Britain's trade envoy, four months after his links to a sex offender prompted calls for him to resign
Carrying on its AntiSec campain Anonymous hackers have taken down the websites of HB Gary, Rootkit and the International Revenue Code.
While its AntiSec campaign continues, Anonymous hackers have released a recruitment video for a new three phase coordinated plan it promises will change the world.
Six months after his arrest, supporters of Julian Assange claim that he is being detained "under house arrest" in "excessive and dehumanising" conditions.
Amnesty International has been fighting torture and illegal imprisonment from its beginning. Since 1962 the group has denounced countries throughout the world where people are being detained and imprisoned arbitrarily without a fair trial, thus facing torture or other forms of ill-treatment while many are held in conditions that are so poor that these amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary ...
Commenting on Pakistan last Friday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Pakistan had failed to grasp just how much more it must do to quash Islamist militancy. Today, Mrs Clinton arrived in Islamabad, a visit that was unannounced amid, intensifying speculation about the status of the relationship between the US and Tripoli since the killing of Osama bin Laden.Clinton and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen were due to meet President Asif Ali Zardari as well as Army chief...
Yesterday in his latest major speech on the Middle East, President Obama pledged American support for pro-democracy uprisings in the region. However, in the Gulf, commentators are criticising what they see as a safe choice. They insist that the speech didn't cover new ground, was short on policy prescriptions, and that the president missed a chance to apologise for America's history of supporting the dictators people revolted against. Has Obama then missed the chance of opening "a new c...
It's not often that an article in the Guardian interests me, but yesterday between the regular complaints about the cuts and the stories of the plight of downtrodden workers in far away places, there was a real gem of a piece about the Chinese dissident and now Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables reveal BP suffered a blowout on an Azerbaijan gas platform in September 2008 and was fortunate to evacuate workers safely after a blast that preceded the one that killed 11 workers in the Gulf of Mexico in April, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. Other cables leaked by the web site Wikileaks claim Azerbaijan's president accused BP of stealing oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian...
An unknown number of North Korean officials secretly defected to South Korea at the beginning of this year or at the end of 2009, according to a cable released yesterday by Wikileaks.
