Month: December 2010

TEHRAN—The WikiLeaks publication of secret cables was not the embarrassing blow to U.S. diplomacy many people assume, but a deliberate ploy by Washington to improve its image, a senior Iranian official said. “The WikiLeaks documents […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israeli officials said an inferno that has raged for four days in a northern Israeli forest was largely under control by nightfall, helped in part by the world’s largest flying fire extinguisher — a Boeing […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Sunday it could now use domestically mined uranium to produce nuclear fuel, giving the country complete control over a process the West suspects is geared toward producing weapons. Tehran made […] […]

LONDON—A British lawmaker said Sunday his Russian assistant is facing deportation as a suspected spy. Mike Hancock, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Commons, said he was unaware that the security services had […] […]

EUROPE’S a continent living in growing fear of its outsiders. A YEAR after voting to ban minarets, the direct-election diehards of Switzerland have struck out again at their foreign population. Residents born outside of Switzerland […] […]

WIKILEAKS’ main server in France has gone offline, preventing many users from accessing the US State Department cables and other documents the site has posted online. The president of the Swiss Pirate Party, which controls […] […]

LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains free while his website spews daily embarrassment and potential diplomatic damage to the United States, his liberty protected for now by the slowly grinding wheels of the law. Assange, who […] […]

LAST May, a steady stream of electronic traffic was sent more than 6,000 miles from an American military base near Baghdad to the home of a young computer hacker in Carmichael, northern California. The messages […] […]

BRITISH airports are to scrap the ban on liquids in hand luggage from April and implement a series of security reforms after protests from passengers and airline operators over excessive checks. Current restrictions on liquids […] […]