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Assange back in jail as Sweden appeals bail

Assange back in jail as Sweden appeals bail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of U.S. ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail on Tuesday pending an appeal over a decision to free him on 200,000 pound ($317,400) bail for alleged sex crimes.

 

One Dead as Two Blasts Hit Stockholm

Two explosions, one of them destroying a car, killed a man and injured two other people in a busy Stockholm district on Saturday, media reports said.

 

The U.S.'s Weak Legal Case Against WikiLeaks

So now that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been rounded up in Britain on a warrant out of Sweden, where he's wanted for questioning in two sex assault cases, what would it take for the US government to prosecute him for publishing ...

 

Rape charges land WikiLeaks founder on Interpol list

Interpol has placed the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against ...

 

Sweden denies residency permit to WikiLeaks founder

Sweden denies residency permit to WikiLeaks founder

Sweden denied a work and residency permit Monday for Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website that angered the United States by releasing classified U.S. military documents about the Afghan war.

 

Pakistan plane lands in Sweden after bomb threat

Pakistan plane lands in Sweden after bomb threat

The plane, traveling from from Toronto to Karachi, diverts after Canadian police receive a tip that a passenger is carrying explosives. Swedish police evacuated a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert Saturday and detained a passenger on suspicion of preparing aircraft sabotage, officials said.

 

WikiLeaks founder 'free to leave Sweden'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free to leave Sweden, after prosecutors said there was no arrest warrant against him for an alleged case of rape, one of his lawyers said Saturday.

 

Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face

Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less than a day later.

 

AP, others not covering Swedish royal wedding

AP, others not covering Swedish royal wedding

The world's biggest international news agencies declined to cover the wedding between Sweden's crown princess and her fitness trainer Saturday after a dispute over the release of television images of the event.

 

Royal wedding off after cheating claims

Sweden's Princess Madeleine has called off her planned wedding following press reports her fiance had sex with a college student during their engagement.

 

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