Wikileaks
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Obama shortens WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning's term, grants clemency to hundreds
World | Jan 18, 2017, 06:50 AM ISTOutgoing US President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, who had leaked scores of classified Army documents to WikiLeaks and is serving 35 years jail term, allowing her to go free nearly three decades early.
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Have a 'verified' Twitter account? WikiLeaks may track you
World | Jan 07, 2017, 01:27 PM ISTSparking a fresh controversy, anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks has threatened to make the private details public of millions of people who have 'verified' Twitter accounts.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned next week over rape allegation
World | Nov 08, 2016, 12:11 PM ISTJulian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, will be questioned in the London-based Ecuadorian embassy on November 14 over an allegation of rape dating back to 2010.
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WikiLeaks reveals President Barack Obama’s personal e-mails
World | Oct 22, 2016, 08:00 AM ISTIn another potentially embarrassing document dump targeting the Democrats just ahead of November 8 presidential elections, the WikiLeaks on Friday revealed US President Barack Obama's private e-mail address by publishing hacked e-mails.
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WikiLeaks emails show preps for PM Narendra Modi's Silicon Valley visit
World | Oct 12, 2016, 06:30 AM ISTThe latest batch of emails released by WikiLeaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta gives an insight into the planning done by the Obama administration to ensure a successful visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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WikiLeaks to publish more Hillary Clinton emails: Julian Assange
World | Jun 13, 2016, 12:40 PM ISTLondon: Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange said his organisation is preparing to publish more emails Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent and received while she was the the secretary of state. Assange’s comments
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Google ‘directly engaged’ in Clinton campaign, says Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
Jun 09, 2016, 08:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: Just as the US preps for the no holds barred fight between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, Julian Assange has claimed that tech giant Google is
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Julian Assange detained arbitrarily, should be freed, rules UN panel
World | Feb 05, 2016, 08:57 PM ISTGeneva: A human rights panel of the United Nations has said that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by U.K. and Sweden since December 2010 and he should be freed and compensated.The U.N.
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Pakistan uses militant proxies against India: CIA chief's hacked email
World | Oct 26, 2015, 10:12 PM ISTWashington: Pakistan uses militants as proxies to counter India's growing influence in Afghanistan, according to a set of documents released by WikiLeaks from the hacked personal email account of CIA director John Brennan.The documents, released
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WikiLeaks publishes CIA director John Brennan's hacked emails
World | Oct 22, 2015, 11:23 AM ISTWashington: The WikiLeaks organization posted material Wednesday from what appears to be CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information.The material presumably was taken in a compromise
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Sweden drops some sex cases against Julian Assange
World | Aug 14, 2015, 07:33 AM ISTHelsinki (AP): Swedish prosecutors on Thursday dropped cases of lesser sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but said they still want to question him on accusations of rape made after his visit to
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US spied on Japan government, companies: Wikileaks
World | Aug 01, 2015, 07:36 AM ISTTokyo: The Wikileaks website has published documents that it says shows the U.S. government spied on Japanese officials and companies.The documents include what appear to be four U.S. National Security Agency reports marked top-secret that
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US spied on Brazil government officials: WikiLeaks
World | Jul 05, 2015, 11:39 AM ISTSao Paulo: Whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks has published the names of more than 29 members of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's administration who were spied on by the US National Security Agency at the start of
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NSA spied on French Presidents Hollande, Sarkozy and Chirac: WikiLeaks
World | Jun 24, 2015, 06:30 AM ISTParis: French President Francois Hollande, ex-presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, and French cabinet ministers were surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the US, WikiLeaks said on Wednesday in a press release. WikiLeaks on
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Saudi Arabia was ready to pay $ 10 billion for Hosni Mubarak's release: Wikileaks documents
World | Jun 21, 2015, 11:31 PM ISTIstambul: A document leaked by Wikileaks reveal that the the Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay $10 billion to secure the freedom of deposed Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak.The memo, written on a letterhead bearing only
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Osama's son asked US for death certificate of his father
World | Jun 20, 2015, 08:45 AM ISTRiyadh: According to a recently leaked WikiLeaks document, a son of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has asked the US for a death certificate after his father was killed by American forces in Pakistan's
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Publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents online: WikiLeaks
World | Jun 20, 2015, 06:35 AM ISTIstanbul: WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in
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Julian Assange marks 3rd anniversary inside Ecuador embassy
World | Jun 19, 2015, 10:25 PM ISTLondon: Julian Assange is marking the third anniversary of his stay inside Ecuador's London embassy.The WikiLeaks founder entered the building on June 19, 2012, to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sexual assaults.British
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WikiLeaks slams Google for handing over staffers' data to US
Jan 27, 2015, 11:51 AM ISTGeneva: WikiLeaks has lashed out at Internet giant Google for handing over its staffers' e-mails and digital data to the US authorities without swiftly informing the whistleblowing site, terming it “an attack on journalism and
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WikiLeaks slams Google over delay in revealing US warrants
World | Jan 27, 2015, 07:43 AM ISTBerlin: WikiLeaks on Monday criticized Google for failing to swiftly inform the secrets-spilling group about U.S. search warrants issued seeking emails and other personal information from three of its staff.The warrants, issued in March 2012,