Month: July 2010

LONDON—It has no headquarters and its public face—a wiry, silver-haired Australian with a physics Ph.D.—carries his desktop computer in a backpack as he moves from place to place. WikiLeaks is a bare-bones organization on a […] […]

WASHINGTON—Fresh diplomatic fury over alleged Pakistani ties to the Taliban flared anew as the White House scrambled to downplay a trove of leaked U.S. military documents that show the blow-by-blow of six dismal years of […] […]

Defence Minister Wayne Mapp yesterday confirmed he was on the flight deck of an RNZAF Hercules forced to take defensive action against a missile threat in Afghanistan last year in one of thousands of incidents […] […]

WASHINGTON – The massive release of secret Pentagon documents by Wikileaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of stolen data can be shared in one click, say analysts. “I think about […] […]

THE US Defence Department said today it was trying to assess the damage caused by the leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war. The documents are described as battlefield reports compiled by […] […]

People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare – an honest politician. Sagbo […] […]