Assange can’t leave Britain until 2015
london: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean Embassy in london since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015 and his hosts are now hoping for a future labour Government to help break the impasse, a media report said.
The Ecuadorean government has been seeking a commitment from the UK’s Conservative-led coalition that it will not support Assange’s extradition to the US if he goes to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault.
Felt little insulted, humiliated: Mush
Washington: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he felt a little “insulted and humiliated” standing before a judge in a Karachi court, where he appeared to seek extension of his pre-arrest bail in a series of cases. Musharraf, 69, who ruled Pakistan for about a decade, following a military coup in which he overthrew Nawaz Sharif, appeared in a court in Karachi for the first time in his life.
US Navy ship removed from Philippines reef
Manila: Salvage teams on Saturday removed the last piece of a US Navy ship that was stuck on a UNESCO World Heritage-listed coral reef in the Philippines for more than 10 weeks, the coast guard said. The stern of the USS Guardian was lifted off the Tubbataha Reef after the 68-metre vessel was sliced into portions for easier removal, Philippine coast guard spokeswoman lieutenant Greanata Jude said.
three Kyrgyzstan lawmakers ‘guilty’
Bishkek: A court in Kyrgyzstan has found three nationalist Opposition lawmakers guilty of attempting to violently overthrow the Government. The three were arrested in October after protesters clashed with police and tried to break into a building housing the parliament and government offices in Kyrgyzstan’s capital.
7 killed in Mexican bar shooting
Ciudad Juarez: A gunman opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others in the latest burst of violence in the country, prosecutors have said. The shooter on Friday walked alone into Mogavi bar in city of Chihuahua — capital of State with same name — and began shooting without saying a word, prosecutor’s office said.
US hands over troubled area to Afghans
Kabul: US special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic region of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan commandos, senior US commander said. The withdrawal from Nirkh district meets a demand by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that US forces leave area after allegations that Americans’ Afghan counterparts committed human rights abuses there.
‘NATO airstrike kills 2 Afghan children’
Ghazni: A NATO helicopter strike killed two children in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the
latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition’s war against Taliban militants. Pakistan supports India’s stand on UN Arms Trade Treaty