By Charlotte Graham-McLay – The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s prime minister said on Wednesday that she would meet with French leaders next month in hopes of forging an agreement between governments and technology companies aimed at eliminating violent…
By Ivan Katchanovski* – Special to Consortium News The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev…
By Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher-Schapiro (*) NEW YORK, Apr 2019 (IPS) – After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange–a development press freedom advocates had long feared. For years…
Burrowes* On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for breaching a bail condition. See ‘Arrest update – SW1’. Upon arrival at a London police station, Julian was ‘further arrested’ on behalf of…
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge (*) – via John Pilger** The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right.
By Nelsy Lizarazo* ~Pressenza, International Press Agency 12.04.2019 – Quito, Ecuador Pressenza interviewed Javier Arcentales Illescas, Human Mobility Advisor of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador, an institution that spoke today about the detention of Julian Assange, at the…
Dan Collyns* – The Guardian President Lenín Moreno made little secret of his desire to evict Assange from embassy building Ecuador’s decision to allow police to arrest Julian Assange inside its embassy on Thursday follows a fraught and acrimonious period in which relations…
Jamie Grierson, Haroon Siddique and Patrick Wintour – The Guardian Fears that WikiLeaks founder will be extradited to the US if he leaves London embassy Supporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gathered outside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London after the…
By Ignacio Torres* – PRESSENZA – International News Agency Santiago, Chile – Redacción Chile . The terrorist attack perpetrated by white supremacists in New Zealand has had as an even more brutal feature with the live streaming by one of the killers in the act of committing the…
By Jim Lobe* – LobeLog The ongoing war in Yemen, called the world’s “worst humanitarian disaster” by the United Nations and independent aid agencies since early last year, received a grand combined total of 20 minutes of coverage on the ABC, NBC, and CBS weekday evening news…
