Ecuador could make a decision on the asylum request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as early as this week, President Rafael Correa said.
Ecuador is weighing the asylum request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and will make the decision on its own, in its own time, the country's president said Tuesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a Saturday deadline to be extradited to Sweden for questioning in sexual assault allegations, Swedish authorities said.
The British Supreme Court denied Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden over sexual abuse allegations -- but the judges left open a surprise avenue Wednesday for the WikiLeaks founder to fight on.
CNN's Atika Shubert updates the legal and media swirl around WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
The two Swedish journalists convicted as terrorists in Ethiopia have opted to seek a pardon rather than appeal the verdict and their 11-year sentences, a Swedish official said Tuesday.
Ethiopia refuses to free two Swedish journalists accused of terrorism. CNN's Per Nyberg reports.
Sweden's prime minister wants two Swedish journalists who were found guilty Wednesday of supporting terrorism in Ethiopia to be freed and returned home as soon as possible, saying they were on a "journalistic mission."
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt discusses the European debt crisis and the effort to save the euro.
Foreign ministry officials in Mali said Saturday three people from other countries were kidnapped Friday, while a fellow foreigner who was killed was probably German.
Ian Swanson was 5 when his family moved from the United States to Umeå, a small university town in northern Sweden. It was the place where he made his first friends, where he learned to read and where, like any kid, he was "into absolutely everything."
Sweden is making a political right turn, in a very Swedish way: cautiously, consensually, unflamboyantly. But decisively even so.
North Korea has identified a detained American man, who was arrested last year for "committing a crime" against the reclusive nation, according to state-run media.
CNN's Jill Dougherty reports on an American man detained by North Korean authorities.
An investigation shows there may be a connection between a man arrested in Scotland Tuesday and a December suicide bombing in Sweden, police said.
Two explosions occurred within minutes in a Swedish district full of Christmas shoppers, authorities said.
The Australian government expects WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be treated fairly if he is extradited to Sweden, the Australian ambassador to Sweden said in a letter to the country's justice minister.
CNN's Diana Magnay talks to a former WikiLeaks spokesman about a new book that claims Julian Assange was a megalomaniac.
A court hearing to determine whether Britain will extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden ended Friday.
Julian Assange's lawyers argue he shouldn't be extradited to Sweden for humanitarian reasons.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday a two-day hearing on whether to extradite him to Sweden is finally lifting the lid on sexual misconduct allegations he says are false and have blighted his reputation for months.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday in London, nine days after he was arrested for questioning about alleged sex crimes in Sweden.
The people of Sweden are coming to terms with the first suicide bombing on their soil, an attack which stunned the nation and in the words of the country's foreign minister could have been "catastrophic."
The people of Sweden are coming to terms with the first suicide bombing on their soil, an attack which stunned the nation and in the words of the country's foreign minister could have been "catastrophic."
A bomber who apparently killed himself in central Stockholm on Saturday was probably on his way to a more crowded location, but his bomb went off prematurely, Swedish authorities said Monday.
A secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is meeting to consider criminal charges in the WikiLeaks case, an attorney for the site's founder, Julian Assange, told the Al-Jazeera network in an interview.
The explosions that killed one person and wounded two others in central Stockholm, Sweden, were "an act of terrorism," a Swedish police official said Sunday.
A failed terrorist attack in a central Stockholm district full of Christmas shoppers could have been catastrophic, Swedish authorities said late Saturday.
The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by British police on a Swedish arrest warrant could presage a long legal battle if the United States wants to extradite him, particularly if Assange is first extradited to Sweden, experts said Tuesday.
London Police arrested him early Tuesday on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion
Interpol has issued a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in connection with alleged sex crimes.
Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed.
British police asked Swedish authorities Thursday for additional details not specified in an initial arrest warrant for Julian Assange, a possible indication that the location of the elusive founder of WikiLeaks is known.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on the fallout of the WikiLeaks scandal in Moscow.
CNN's Max Foster talks with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt about Ireland's austerity measures.
In August, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in absentia and faced charges of rape and molestation.
The Stockholm Criminal Court on Thursday issued an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force.
Swedish prosecutors launched a formal criminal investigation into "unlawful intelligence activity" conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, according to a statement posted Monday on the Swedish Prosecution Authority's website.
The Swedish security police have launched an investigation into "unlawful intelligence activities" conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, according to a statement released Saturday.
A serial shooter targeting immigrants is keeping Malmo, Sweden on edge. CNN's Per Nyberg reports.
The person behind a string of unsolved shootings in Malmo, Sweden, is probably a man between 20 and 40 years old who gets around on a bicycle and knows the city reasonably well, police said Tuesday.
Authorities on Monday said an unknown gunman thought to be responsible for two shooting incidents in a southern Swedish city may be behind as many as 19 shootings targeting immigrants.
The far-right party took 20 seats in the Swedish parliament after a nail-biter of an election.
The historic success of a far-right party in Swedish elections is a response to the country's "extreme immigration policies," which have "shattered" Swedish society, the party leader said Monday.
Residents in Sweden turned out to the polls to vote in what could become a historic election. CNN's Per Nyberg reports.
Sweden's ruling center-right coalition secured a return to power in Sunday's election. But the alliance -- which includes the Moderate Party, Liberal People's Party, Christian Democrats and the Center party -- lost its outright majority. CNN's Per Nyberg looks at the significance of the vote.
Sweden's ruling center-right coalition won re-election Sunday, marking a historic moment as a non-socialist government was elected to a second term for the first time in the country's political history.
Swedish authorities have scheduled a time to interrogate the founder and editor of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.
Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against Julian Assange, the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, less than a day after issuing it.
The U.S. is urging Pyongyang to release an American held captive after reports that the man attempted suicide in a North Korean prison.
Protesters in the capital cities of Denmark and Sweden attacked Iran's embassies Thursday as demonstrators opposed to executions turned violent.
Turkey has canceled a high-level summit scheduled to take place in Sweden next week in protest of a resolution passed by the Swedish Parliament, recognizing the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
The Israeli government reacted strongly Tuesday to a report that the European Union is planning on officially calling for the division of Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israelis.
The prime ministers of Croatia and Slovenia signed a deal Wednesday to settle a long-running border dispute and remove a key obstacle to Croatia's prospects of securing European Union membership.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty Tuesday, he announced on his Web site, paving the way for major changes to the way the 27-nation bloc is run.
The Polish president on Saturday signed his country's ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, aimed at streamlining the workings of the European Union.
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Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden's government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it.
Israel has expressed outrage about a Swedish newspaper article that called for an investigation into claims that Israeli soldiers may have harvested organs from dead Palestinians.
The Swedish ambassador met with two imprisoned U.S. journalists in Pyongyang on Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokesman said, in their first meeting since a North Korean court handed the reporters their 12-year sentence.
As the trial for two American journalists began Thursday in North Korea, a former Japanese journalist has recounted his experience while he was imprisoned in the country for about two years.
Anderson Cooper talks to the families of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two journalists who are being held in North Korea.
Observers have been barred from a trial for two American journalists who were detained while covering the plight of North Korean defectors living along the China-North Korea border, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
The Sri Lankan army overran two Tamil Tiger rebel positions in the country's north on Tuesday, the military reported on its Web site.
As President Obama discusses the economic crisis with world leaders at the G-20 summit this week, two nations' experiences wrestling with similar financial troubles in recent history could offer recovery lessons for the United States.
Sweden's parliament on Wednesday approved same-sex marriage legislation, according to the parliament's Web site.
An expatriate in Hong Kong discovers the difficulties of trying to cast her vote from afar
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The United Arab Emirates is expected to soon name an ambassador to Iraq and could open an embassy in the war-ravaged nation, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of
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Kosovo's likely next prime minister tells TIME that his state's independence from Serbia is no longer a matter of if, but when
Four Swedes have been arrested in Somalia on suspicion of possibly having fought alongside Islamic militants, but the four have not yet been charged, Swedish officials told CNN.
"Trust but verify," Ronald Reagan once said, describing his approach to Soviet arms reduction efforts. The unspoken corollary to his admonition was that promises alone are worthless.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says heavy rain and damaged roads are hampering efforts to bring help to victims of this week's huge earthquake.
An Iraqi-Swedish Christian politician who was kidnapped in Baghdad in January has been freed, Sweden's foreign ministry said on Friday.
Sweden has begun paying homage to the many nationals who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami, putting on a formal and symbolic ceremony for the first bodies returning to home soil.
The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs says it plans to scold the Israeli ambassador to Sweden for damaging artwork depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber.
Anders Ahlbom is hardly a revolutionary. Sitting in his tidy, light-filled office at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute medical school, the researcher whose results are frightening a lot of people se...
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