Month: December 2010

WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange says there is a “high chance” he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges. The Australian is on bail in […] […]

Ivory Coast appeared to be sliding back into civil war yesterday as foreign nationals were warned to leave the country, while government-backed “death squads” were reported to be abducting opposition supporters. The international community stepped […] […]

Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome this morning, wounding the two people who opened them. The attacks triggered heightened security checks at diplomatic missions just as holiday deliveries deluge their […] […]

ASUNCION, Paraguay—The Paraguayan government worked closely with the DEA earlier this year to expand its capacity to spy on cell phone calls to confront the threat posed by a band of leftist rebels, according to […] […]

LONDON—British police say they have made changes in their royal protection procedures after student protesters attacked the car of Prince Charles and his wife. Police say the changes were immediately put into place following a […] […]

WASHINGTON — The Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private suspected of downloading thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handing them over to WikiLeaks was able to do so and […] […]

LONDON—British police say three people have been arrested for stealing a 1.2 million-pound ($1.85 million) antique violin from a musician at a London train station. Twenty-six-year-old John Maughan and two teenagers were charged on Wednesday […] […]

JOHANNESBURG—A South African serial killer has been convicted of murdering 13 women and dumping their bodies in sugarcane plantations around the country, prosecutors said Thursday. The 36-year-old man lured women into sugarcane fields in South […] […]