Month: December 2010

THE biggest inferno in Israel’s history claimed 41 people overnight as the Pentagon mobilised the National Guard to help fire-fighters. At the same time, the US said it would send 45 tonnes of fire retardant […] […]

Michael O’Hanlon barely pauses to think. “In this hypothetical situation,” he asks, “am I armed or unarmed?” Senior fellow at the august Brookings Institution, O’Hanlon has just been asked what he would do if he […] […]

HAVANA—Cuba’s Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of terrorism for his role in a string of bombings that killed an Italian and wounded 11 others in 1997, ruling Friday that […] […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking from an undisclosed spot thought to be in Britain, said Friday that Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff “should be charged with incitement to commit murder” for saying Assange should […] […]

CUERNAVACA, MEXICO—The Mexican army has detained a 14-year-old suspected of working as a killer for a drug cartel, an army official said Friday. The much-rumoured alleged young assassin nicknamed “El Ponchis” was captured late Thursday […] […]

STOCKHOLM—WikiLeaks was forced Friday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service. WikiLeaks’ U.S. domain […] […]

WASHINGTON—Everyone loves a secret. But after almost a week of cascading revelations courtesy of WikiLeaks, it is increasingly evident American diplomats love the term to occasionally ridiculous excess. Take, for instance, a “Secret” missive to […] […]

The law is closing in on Julian Assange. Swedish authorities won a court ruling Thursday in their bid to arrest the WikiLeaks founder for questioning in a rape case, British intelligence is said to know […] […]