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Assange wants guarantee he won’t be sent to U.S.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Monday called for diplomatic guarantees he will not be pursued by the United States for publishing secret documents if he goes to Sweden to face criminal allegations. The Australian, 40, said he is prepared to go to Sweden to face questioning over sex assault claims, but…
WikiLeaks founder denounces Australia, Sweden
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Australia and Sweden on Friday as he spoke for the first time since turning up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London requesting political asylum. The former computer hacker told Australia’s ABC radio of his fears that he would end up in the hands…
Prosecution: Assange’s decision to seek Ecuador asylum ‘a tragedy’
Julian Assange’s decision to seek asylum in Ecuador is “a tragedy” for the two women who have accused him of sexual assault in Sweden, their lawyer has said. Claes Borgström, who represents the two unnamed women with whom the WikiLeaks founder had sexual relations in Stockholm in August 2010, told…
Counterfeit coins call Sweden’s Carl XVI Gustaf a ‘whore king’
Counterfeit Swedish coins bearing a reference to “whore king” Carl XVI Gustaf have been found in circulation, media reports said Thursday. The coins appear to make fun of the monarch over his rumoured infidelities, detailed in an unauthorised biography published in 2010 and which he never denied outright. At least…
Top court rules Assange can be extradited to Sweden
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but his extradition was put on hold to give his lawyers a chance to re-open the case. Britain’s highest court rejected the argument from Assange’s lawyers that the Swedish prosecutor who issued the arrest warrant over sex crime allegations was not entitled…
‘Pirate’ religion of Kopimism arrives in the U.S.
Sweden’s Missionary Church of Kopimism, which was founded in the fall of 2010 and granted official recognition by the Swedish government this past January, has already established branches in eighteen countries, including the United States. Now the upstart religion is beginning to attract mainstream attention. Kopimism is currently featured in…
Nazi mine washes up in Sweden
Military bomb experts in Sweden successfully disarmed a Nazi-era mine Tuesday morning after it washed up near one of the country’s beaches. According to Sweden’s The Local, the World War II weapon was discovered over the weekend near the town of Lorudden. Bomb experts initially thought the mine would contain…
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