Month: December 2010

VLADIMIR Putin has led growing support from some world leaders for the beleaguered WikiLeaks founder, describing his detention in Britain as “undemocratic”. The wave of support for Julian Assange, currently in a British jail as […] […]

IRAN is yet to confirm claims that an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning has been freed. Photographs have been released of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani while on home leave last week but without any official […] […]

Give Julian Assange credit for one thing — he’s got people talking. Not agreeing, mind you. But talking, definitely. Take the Berkeley City Council, a famously left-wing group. Its members have been considering praising the […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Haiti’s electoral council will re-count the vote in the country’s disputed election in view of election monitors and potentially the three leading candidates themselves, the council president said Thursday. The decision follows rioting sparked by […] […]

WASHINGTON — In a show of unity, the U.S., Japan and South Korea on Monday said they would not resume nuclear negotiations with North Korea until it stops its “provocative and belligerent” behavior and takes […] […]

A prominent Toronto lawyer has won a discrimination case against the Peel Law Association after he and two black colleagues were singled out in a room full of lawyers and asked for identification. Lawyer Selwyn […] […]

LONDON—Police say WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has surrendered to British police as part of a Swedish sex-crimes investigation, the latest blow to the secret-spilling website that faces legal, financial and security challenges. Assange was arrested […] […]

OTTAWA—Shooting the messenger is a tried-and-true political strategy that’s most rewarding when the target is as soft as Julian Assange. However good and distracting the sport, attacking the Wikileaker badly misses the focal point. As […] […]

SAUDI Arabia is the key source of funding for radical Islamist groups including al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hamas. This is according to one of the latest cables released by WikiLeaks. The kingdom especially struggles […] […]