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Julian Assange has been living in Ecuador's London embassy for five-and-a-half years

Ecuador grants citizenship to Julian Assange

Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Donald Trump Jr's release shows about a dozen messages from WikiLeaks to him

Trump Jr releases series of WikiLeaks messages

US President Donald Trump's son has released a series of messages he had with WikiLeaks after a report suggested he had secretly liaised with the group that published Hillary Clinton's emails during last year's election.

Wikileaks • 14 Nov 17

Julian Assange has previously made speeches from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy

Assange cancels embassy speech ahead of meeting

A planned announcement by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been deferred on the advice of his legal counsel, following the agreement of an "imminent meeting" with British authorities.

UK • 19 Jun 17

Julian Assange spoke to media on the balcony of the Ecuadoran Embassy in London

Assange 'ready' to talk to US and UK

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he was prepared to talk to Britain and the United States after Sweden dropped a probe into an allegation of rape against him.

World • 19 May 17

Chelsea Manning has said she hopes to use the lessons she learned in prison to help others

Chelsea Manning walks free after seven years in jail

Chelsea Manning, the transgender former US military intelligence analyst responsible for a massive leak of classified material, has left prison after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence.

World • 17 May 17

The documents are generally believed to be genuine, although the CIA has not acknowledged this

WikiLeaks say CIA can permanently infect Apple Macs

The Central Intelligence Agency is able to permanently infect an Apple Mac computer so that even reinstalling the operating system will not erase the bug, according to documents published by WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks • 23 Mar 17

Leaked documents claim a 'fake-off' mode was created which tricked users into believing their TV screen was off

Samsung probes WikiLeaks' smart TV spying claims

Samsung is "urgently" investigating claims from WikiLeaks that intelligence agencies have used the firm's smart TVs as part of tools to spy on users.

Technology • 08 Mar 17

The documents are said to come from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA in Langley, Virginia

Wikileaks 'reveals CIA's covert hacking programme'

WikiLeaks has released what it describes as the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.

News • 07 Mar 17

Julian Assange was speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London via social media

Julian Assange stands over US extradition offer

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he stands by an offer to be extradited to the United States now that Chelsea Manning is being released.

Julian Assange • 19 Jan 17

The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment

Trump dismisses compromising info claims

Classified documents that the heads of four US intelligence agencies presented last week to President-elect Donald Trump included claims that Russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him, two US officials said last night.

News • 12 Jan 17

Ingrid Isgren leaves the Embassy of Ecuador after questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Swedish officials leave Ecuador embassy in London

Two Swedish officials have left the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange was being interviewed about a sex allegation.

News • 14 Nov 16

Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012

Ecuador restricted Assange's internet access

Ecuador's government has acknowledged that it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, who has lived in the country's London embassy since mid-2012.

News • 19 Oct 16

The statement was the first official accusation by Washington officials against Moscow in the spate of cyber attacks

US accuses Russian government of cyber attacks

US officials formally accused the Russian government of directing cyber attacks on American political organisations, saying the hacks were "intended to interfere with the US election process".

News • 07 Oct 16

Julian Assange avoided possible extradition to Sweden by taking refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London

Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant

A Swedish court has upheld the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

News • 25 May 16

Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012

UN: WikiLeaks' Assange 'arbitrarily detained'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will demand he be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London a free man, after a UN panel ruled he was detained arbitrarily there.

News • 05 Feb 16

There is no specific mention of wiretapping Shinzo Abe

WikiLeaks says US 'spied on Japan'

WikiLeaks has released documents saying that the US spied on Japanese politicians, its top central banker and major firms including conglomerate Mitsubishi.

News • 31 Jul 15

President Obama held a phone call with his French counterpart earlier

US committed to ending ‘unacceptable’ practices

US President Barack Obama has reiterated his country’s commitment to end past practices that were considered "unacceptable" by its allies in a phone call with French counterpart Francois Hollande.

News • 24 Jun 15

The NSA reportedly spied on French presidents during a period of at least six years between 2006 until May 2012

US agency 'spied on last three French presidents'

The US National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande according to WikiLeaks, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.

News • 24 Jun 15

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been in the Ecuadoran embassy for two years

Swedish court upholds Assange warrant

A Swedish court has upheld an arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for alleged sexual assault.

News • 16 Jul 14

Edward Snowden pictured at a dinner in Russia earlier this month at an undisclosed location

Old technology helped Snowden to download: report

The US National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly-classified documents.

News • 19 Oct 13

Supporters of Bradley Manning react after attending his sentencing hearing

US soldier Manning handed 35-year jail term

US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing secret files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified data in US history.

News • 21 Aug 13

The TDs called for Irish people living in Australia to vote for Mr Assange's new political party

Two TDs studying information provided by Assange

Two TDs who met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this week have said they will raise some of the points discussed when the Dáil resumes next month.

News • 16 Aug 13

Wikilieak's Julian Assange says Edward Snowden's whistleblowing has brought US surveillance reforms

Assange says Snowden has brought US secrecy curbs

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that fugitive Edward Snowden's whistleblowing has led to curbs of sweeping US surveillance programmes announced by President Obama.

News • 11 Aug 13

Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy for more than a year

Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's UK embassy

Ecuador has said it has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living.

News • 03 Jul 13

Julian Assange has not left the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for the past 12 months

Assange 'will not leave Ecuadorean Embassy'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he fears arrest on the order of the US.

News • 19 Jun 13