Month: December 2010

MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told United States officials to keep their noses out of Russian affairs in a combative response to criticisms of the way his country was run revealed by leaked […] […]

Swedish officials ratcheted up the pressure on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, asking European police to arrest him on rape allegations as his organisation continued to embarrass the Obama administration with a stream of leaked diplomatic […] […]

CARACAS, Venezuela—Cuban intelligence agents have deep involvement in Venezuela and enjoy direct access to President Hugo Chavez, the U.S. Embassy said in a 2006 diplomatic cable that was classified as secret. The document was among […] […]

LONDON—The U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg praised a former Guantanamo Bay detainee for lobbying European governments to accept former inmates of the American military prison, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. One of more than 290 […] […]

RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted today that 10 spies expelled from the United States earlier this year “didn’t cause any harm” to US interests. The sleeper agents, many of whom had been working for […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada has expressed its “grave concern” to Kabul that Afghan security forces are regularly freeing senior Taliban captives, a Canadian official said on Wednesday. Reuters revealed on Tuesday that senior Taliban prisoners were being released […] […]

OTTAWA—Wikileaks are making voyeurs of us all. Titillating at best, the latest document dump is at its worst when it confuses a single scene with a full-length drama. The peculiar case of former Canadian spymaster […] […]