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Ecuador grants asylum to Assange

LONDON (AP) — Ecuador said Thursday that it was granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a decision that thrilled supporters but will do little to defuse the standoff at the Latin American...

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Ecuador’s Assange statement, decoded

LIMA, Peru — Despite the dense, legalistic and repetitive text, the Ecuadorean government’s official statement announcing the decision to grant Julian Assange asylum makes for a colorful read.The...

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Britain’s Assange overreach

The prosecution of Julian Assange has taken a comically dark twist now that the British government has threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has sought asylum. Contrary to...

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What do Ecuadoreans think of Assange?

President Rafael Correa’s decision to offer Julian Assange asylum appears to have divided citizens of this South American country. Some regarded the move as a humanitarian gesture while others viewed...

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Assange skewers Obama in UN speech

Speaking via grainy videolink from his Ecuadorian embassy hideout in London, Julian Assange spoke to the U.N. Thursday, pulling no punches about the Obama administration. In the sideline event attended...

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Weird news: Ecuador officials reject donkey as candidate

QUITO, Ecuador — The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature.At least 40 people paraded their candidate...

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Will Latin America offer Assad asylum?

LIMA, Peru — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might want to think twice before fleeing to Latin America with his family.He is reported to have sent his deputy foreign minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, on a...

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Julian Assange wants to run for office

According to Australian news sources, Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate in 2013 under the banner of the "WikilLeaks Party." News site the Age reported that Assange has...

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“To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us”

Of the thousands of "Avatar" screenings held during the film’s record global release wave, none tethered the animated allegory to reality like a rainy day matinee in Quito, Ecuador.It was late January...

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Thank the War on Drugs for your Valentine’s Day roses

This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.When your love hands you a gorgeous bouquet of large, red, long-stemmed roses this Valentine’s Day, as any botanist will tell...

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Julian Assange: The government is a vindictive loser

London—A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears...

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Snowden seeking asylum in Ecuador, says WikiLeaks

NSA whistle-blower and wanted man Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Ecuador, according to the country's foreign minister and WikiLeaks.A Sunday statement from WikiLeaks said that Snowden is "bound...

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Assange: Snowden en route to Ecuador

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on a conference call with reporters this morning that NSA leaker Edward Snowden left Russia for Ecuador Sunday, hoping to gain asylum in the country whose London...

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Snowden won’t find a beacon of civil rights in Ecuador

Alliances of convenience with unsavory governments are nothing new in international politics, but they would seem to be the kind of moral relativism that recently teamed-up Edward Snowden and Julian...

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Snowden screen name said leakers “should be shot”

Someone using Edward Snowden's screen name on an Internet messaging board said leakers "should be shot" for revealing classified information, just four years before he became an international fugitive...

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Biden to Ecuador: Don’t grant Edward Snowden asylum

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has been asked to not grant NSA whistleblower, charged with espionage, asylum if he arrives to the South American country. In what he described as a "cordial" phone...

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America’s imperial decline: Must Dick Cheney always be president?

Edward Snowden has been on the lam for nearly three weeks now. The 30-year-old computer whiz has gone from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Moscow since revealing official eavesdropping and hacking practices...

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Chevron shows the NSA how to spy

According to a new ruling by a U.S. District Court judge, if you want to be anonymous, you give up your right to have your speech protected by the First Amendment. That's the alarming gist of Judge...

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Steven Donziger: “A giant oil company is trying to destroy me”

The New York Times conducted a lengthy interview with Steven Donziger, the lawyer who two years back won an $18 billion case against Chevron’s destruction of jungles in Ecuador. The oil giant contends...

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“The world has failed us”: Ecuador abandons its conservation plan

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced yesterday that the country was giving up on its attempt to preserve the Yasuni basin in the Amazon rainforest. And with an executive decree invalidating his...

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