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Britain and Ecuador have failed to break the deadlock over the unresolved asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino met with British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday to search for a diplomatic solution over Assange, who has been holed up inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for almost a year. They agreed to set up a working group to work on the issue and to continue communicating.Assange took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning for alleged sexual misconduct. Ecuador has granted him political asylum, but Britain refuses to grant him safe passage.Ecuador says Assange faces a threat of political persecution from the U.S. for publishing a trove of secret U.S. documents....
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has asked Britain's Supreme Court to reopen his extradition case, an unusual legal maneuver aimed at blocking his removal to Sweden.Br...
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have filed an appeal against a ruling that he be extradited to Sweden to face sex-crimes allegations, court officials sa...
The U.K. and Ecuador are at loggerheads over a letter in which the Latin American nation claims Britain threatened to "assault our embassy" if WikiLeaks founder Juli...
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague says Ecuador must quickly resume negotiations over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Assange, who is seeking to ...
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange is to find out next week whether his bid to block extradition to Sweden has been successful.Britain's Supreme Court said Wednesday the...
Britain's Supreme Court is due to rule Wednesday whether to approve the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, a potential turning point in the Int...
British police served Julian Assange on Thursday with a demand that he report to a police station as the first step in his extradition to Sweden to face sex crime al...
LONDON -- Julian Assange's lawyer was arranging to deliver the WikiLeaks founder to British police for questioning in a sex-crimes investigation of the man who has a...
Embattled WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange took refuge Tuesday in Ecuador's embassy in London and is seeking political asylum, his organization and the South American ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was scheduled to appear in a London court Tuesday seeking to fight his extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation and tryin...
It has come to this: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is complaining that someone leaked a Swedish police report on his alleged sexual offenses.In an interv...
A British judge granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, but he remained in custody pending a possible appeal.Swedish authorities were given two ...
The controversial Australian-born hacker-turned-free-speech advocate Julian Assange is the subject of Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney's latest film: "We Stea...
A year after seeking refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange remains fearful of US "revenge" over the WikiLeaks disclosures and aware that the dip...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations after judges rejected claims that moves t...
Some of the WikiLeaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange's arrest may want to think again.The prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquir...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in court Tuesday for the latest installment in his fight against extradition to Sweden , where the Australian is accused of ...
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has defied a British police summons and won't be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London until he hears about his asylum bid, a membe...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was back in court Tuesday, fighting extradition to Sweden on the grounds allegations of sexual misconduct laid against him there don...