News leaks

A British judge has rejected the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be "oppressive" because of his mental health.

District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said on Jan. 4 Assange was likely to commit suicide if sent to the U.S.

The U.S. government said it would appeal the decision.

Anonymous hackers have got hold of 11-Gigabytes of the private information of millions of Bulgarian taxpayers, Bulgarian media announced on Monday.

The files, sorted into 57 folders, include personal details such as Personal Identification Numbers, names, addresses and even the declared income of Bulgarians.

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack July 8 on outgoing British premier Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency.    

Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno on April 14 defended his decision to overturn Julian Assange's asylum status, claiming in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the WikiLeaks founder had tried to set up a "center for spying" in Ecuador's London embassy.

WikiLeaks creator was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, police said. 47-year-old Julian Assange has been detained by London City Police officers at the Ecuadorian Embassy on an order issued by the Westminster Magistrates Court on June 29, 2012 for failing to appear in court.

RT is reporting that Assange was arrested by UK police immediately after leaving the embassy.

Ecuador's president decided to abolish the previously approved asylum, which for six years protected the founder of the whistleblowing website from arrest.
Assange fell out with Ecuadorr's authorities after WikiLeaks allegedly "interfered in Ecuador's affairs."

An Istanbul court has sentenced journalist Pelin Ünker to one year, one month and 15 days in jail over a series of articles named "Paradise Papers" published on Cumhuriyet newspaper about offshore companies that allegedly belonged to former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım's sons on the tax-haven island of Malta.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange must eventually leave the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up for the past six years, the country's president says.

Speculation about Assange's future has grown in recent days after reports senior officials from Ecuador and Britain were now in discussion about how to remove him from the embassy after revocation of his asylum.

The Turkish Interior Ministry has denied reports that a group of police officers have been reassigned due to allegations of warrantless tapping of Minister Süleyman Soylu's phone conversations, saying monitors were conducting "routine inspections" in the police intelligence department.

A court decision on whether a UK arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still valid is due on 6 February, The Independent reported.

Mr Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than six years following a sex assault-related case brought by Swedish prosecutors.