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Centre issues notice to Wikipedia: 'Complaints of bias and inaccuracies'
India | Nov 05, 2024, 01:00 PM ISTThe Information and Broadcasting Ministry sent the popular online source of information notice at a a time when it is embroiled in legal cases in India over alleged inaccurate and defamatory content provided by it.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends | WATCH
World | Jun 26, 2024, 06:30 PM ISTAssange pled guilty at a hearing in the US Pacific island of Saipan to conspiring to disclose US national defence documents, but said the Constitution's First Amendment protected his activities. His admission of guilt was part of a deal that saw him return to Australia after over a decade.
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Julian Assange: Timeline of WikiLeaks boss legal saga over extradition to US on espionage charges
World | Jun 25, 2024, 12:19 PM ISTWikiLeaks in 2010 released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - the largest security breaches of their kind in US military history - along with swaths of diplomatic cables.
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Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, freed after striking plea deal with US in espionage case
World | Jun 25, 2024, 07:07 AM ISTJulian Assange appeared in a US federal court in the Mariana Islands, where he pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining classified national defense information. The US Justice Department confirmed his plea in a court-filed letter. As a result, Assange was granted release from prison.
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UK govt approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange; he plans to appeal
World | Jun 17, 2022, 04:34 PM ISTUK government approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US on spying charges
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the US, orders British judge
World | Apr 20, 2022, 04:15 PM ISTThe decision now rests with Interior Minister Priti Patel. Julian Assange's lawyers may still appeal to the High Court if she approves the extradition.
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UK judge refuses US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
World | Jan 04, 2021, 07:18 PM ISTA British judge on Monday rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions.
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17 new charges filed against Julian Assange
World | May 24, 2019, 09:06 AM ISTHe was previously charged last month on one count of conspiring with ex-intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to the Pentagon network.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London
World | Apr 11, 2019, 03:39 PM ISTAssange, infamous across the globe for publishing state secrets that embarrassed governments had been under the protection of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for almost seven years.
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Rahul, Sonia Gandhi should apologise for defaming Hindus by using term 'saffron terror': BJP
National | Apr 17, 2018, 02:40 PM ISTDuring a meeting with then US ambassador, Rahul Gandhi had said saffron terror was a bigger threat than the Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed the BJP quoting a telegram sourced from Wikileaks.
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After 5 years of political asylum, Ecuador grants citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
World | Jan 12, 2018, 08:00 AM ISTEcuador gave Assange political asylum after he sought refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for investigation of sex-related claims.
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Ecuador grants citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
World | Jan 11, 2018, 10:38 PM ISTAssange, an Australian, became an Ecuadoran citizen on December 12.
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Donald Trump’s son communicated with WikiLeaks during presidential campaign
World | Nov 14, 2017, 07:54 AM ISTPresident Donald Trump’s oldest son communicated with the Twitter account behind WikiLeaks, exchanging direct messages during the 2016 election campaign.
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WikiLeaks hints CIA may have access to Aadhaar data: Report
World | Aug 27, 2017, 06:45 AM ISTWikiLeaks has claimed that America’s intelligence agency CIA is using technology provider Cross Match Technologies to ‘secretly’ extract biometric information
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Julian Assange calls Sweden's dropping of probe 'important victory'
World | May 19, 2017, 11:13 PM ISTAssange, who appeared on the balcony of his Ecuadorean embassy hideout in London this evening, said he will not "forgive" those who "slandered" him.
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Swedish prosecutor drops rape probe against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
World | May 19, 2017, 06:12 PM ISTIn a statement issued here, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said that Marianne Ny ‘has discontinue the investigation’ against the Australian computer programmer.
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US NSA spying on Pakistan's mobile networks, says WikiLeaks
World | Apr 11, 2017, 07:45 PM ISTThe US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Pakistan's mobile networks, WikiLeaks has said.
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WikiLeaks’ latest release could blow the cover on hacking operations
World | Apr 01, 2017, 06:43 PM ISTWikiLeaks’ most recent revelation of CIA cyber-tools uncovers a strategy utilized by the agency to conceal its digital tracks, conceivably ruining the disguise on hacking operations aimed at gathering intelligence on foreign targets, the media
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CIA can hack anything from smartphones to smart TVs, claim leaked WikiLeaks docs
World | Mar 08, 2017, 04:41 PM ISTIn what is possibly the largest ever leak of CIA documents in history, anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into
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CIA ordered spying on French 2012 election, reveal WikiLeaks documents
World | Feb 17, 2017, 08:07 PM ISTWikiLeaks, the international organisation that publishes secret information, has released a seven-page document allegedly revealing that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered its spies to gather information on the 2012 French presidential electi