LONDON (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange risks turning from a popular hero into an L. Ron Hubbard figure, tolerating only “blinkered, cultish devotion”, said one his former backers Jemima Khan. Claiming Assange had alienated his supporters, Khan, associate editor of the New ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to keep exposing secret documents and defended his controversial website, two years after it published a massive trove of sensitive US diplomatic cables. Marking the anniversary of “cablegate,” Assange alleged in a commentary ...

SYDNEY  - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview published Monday he has hired a legal team to establish whether he has a case to sue Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation. The Australian founder of the whistleblowing website says comments Gillard made in 2010 ...

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is certain he will one day go to Ecuador, he said in an interview published Sunday, describing his life in the Ecuadoran embassy in London as "like being in a space station".The Australian activist, 41, has been holed up in the embassy since claiming asylum ...

Patrick CockburnAs Julian Assange evades arrest by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge to escape extradition to Sweden, and possibly the US, British commentators have targeted him with shrill abuse. They almost froth with rage as they cite petty examples of his supposed ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday night dismissed the extradition notice served on him earlier in the day by Scotland Yard, saying he "almost certainly will not" attend a police station after breaching bail conditions. The notice was served on him at the Ecuador embassy where he has ...

MOSCOW - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday made his debut as a chat show host on a Kremlin-funded channel with a deliberately shocking choice of first guest - the leader of Hezbollah. While still under house arrest in London, the founder of the whistle-blowing website spoke via video link ...

LONDON - The first episode of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new TV interview show will be broadcast on Tuesday on Russia Today and online, the whistleblowing website said on Friday. WikiLeaks remained tight-lipped on the identity of Assange's interviewee in the first of the 12-episode weekly ...

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in Australia's senate next year despite being under virtual house arrest in the UK and facing sex crime allegations in Sweden. The 40-year-old Australian citizen has taken his legal battle against extradition all the way to Britain's ...

GENEVA (AFP) - The head of the Davos economic forum said Sunday he would have liked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to attend next months summit of world political and business elites in the Swiss ski resort. I should invite him, Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), told Sunday ...

LONDON (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has for his own safety been moved to a segregation unit of the London prison where he is being held pending extradition to Sweden, one of his lawyers said Friday. The prison authorities are doing it for his own safety, presumably, lawyer Jennifer ...