Whistleblowing

Julian Assange spent his youth in Australia during the 1980s in a state of chaotic, perpetual motion. He moved more than two dozen times, bounced from school to school, and was thrust, for a time, into what he called a New Age cult, before settling in Melbourne.

He said a whistleblower informed him

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.

Journalist Pelin Ünker, who was sentenced to over a year in jail over a series of "Paradise Papers" reports 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, was not sentenced over her journalistic activities, Yıldırım, now speaker of parliament, said on Jan. 10.

Steven Spielberg's historical drama "The Post" recreates the critical days in 1971 when the US government tried to prohibit the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing a secret Pentagon investigation which found that Vietnam was a lost cause and showed that successive administrations had lied to the people about the war. The film is an ode to press freedom.

Speaking at a panel organized by the American Enterprise Institute, this official, often publicly presented as a person of US President Donald Trump's "utmost trust," mentioned the former state as an example of "threats coming from nation states."

On Monday, President Donald Trump's son revealed a public series of messages he had personally exchanged with WikiLeaks after he was previously accused of plotting secretly with the group that published Hillary Clinton's compromising emails during the presidential race last year.

Maltese blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who accused her country's government of corruption, has been the victim of a bomb placed under her car, world media reported.

Russia's ambassador to Spain has denied the allegations made on the pages of the Spanish edition of El Pais that Moscow is involved in the organization of the referendum in Catalonia, Moskovski Komsomolets writes.

Harvard University on Sept. 15 withdrew a fellowship invitation to Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of leaking classified data, after two top  intelligence experts distanced themselves from the school over the invite.