LONDON -- In the covert existence that Julian Assange adopted as founder of the secrecy-busting organization WikiLeaks, he made a lifestyle of sleeping on borrowed sofas and fostering a legend for himself as a man without a place or a country to call … Romney: I never paid less than 13 percent in taxes - CBS News
Play CBS News Video Updated at 1:40 pm ET (CBS News) After weeks of speculation about his tax returns, Mitt Romney on Thursday said he paid at least 13 percent in income taxes for each of the past 10 years. "I did go back and look at my taxes, … Ecuador grants asylum to Assange, angering Britain
LONDON/QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange on Thursday, a day after it said Britain had threatened to raid the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest the former hacker. Britain has said it is determined to extradite him to Sweden, where he is accused of rape and sexual assault. Assange fears he will ultimately be sent to the United States which is furious that his WikiLeaks website has leaked hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military cables. … Ecuador grants political asylum to Julian Assange - Los Angeles Times
LONDON -- Britain doesn't want him. Ecuador does. Therein lies a very large rub. A tense diplomatic faceoff grew uglier Thursday after Ecuador announced it was granting political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks … UK: We won't allow Julian Assange to leave Britain
British Foreign Secretary William Hague says that the U.K. will not allow Assange safe passage out of the country. South Africa police open fire on striking miners - Los Angeles Times
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Police opened fire Thursday on striking workers at a South African platinum mine, leaving as many as 18 dead, according to authorities and news reports. South African police officials confirmed that lives were lost in the … UN monitors quit, saying Syrians choose "path of war" - Reuters
By Dominic Evans and Hadeel Al Shalchi | BEIRUT/ALEPPO (Reuters) – Syria's government and rebels have "chosen the path of war", a UN peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among … Britain stops export of key Picasso painting
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has placed a temporary export ban on a key Picasso painting which had been on loan to a public gallery since 1974 before its aristocratic owners decided to put it up for sale. “Child with a Dove” was painted in 1901 and marked the beginning of the Spanish artist’s “blue period.” It has been valued at 50 million pounds. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said on Friday he was preventing the work from leaving the country until December 16, and, if a “serious” attempt to meet the asking price was made by a private buyer or institution outside Britain, until June 16, 2013. …
Unasur Calls Crisis Summit Over UK 'Threats' to Seize Assange - Businessweek
By Nathan Gill on August 16, 2012 Ecuador said the Union of South American Nations called an emergency meeting to discuss UK "threats" to seize WikiLeak's founder Julian Assange from inside its embassy in London. The 12-nation group, known as Unasur, … Infamous British killer may have revealed grave site: police
Notorious British killer Ian Brady, who was jailed in 1966 for murdering five children, may have revealed the grave site of one of his victims to a long-term visitor, police announced on Thursday. Egyptian TV presenter, chief editor to go on trial
An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered a popular TV presenter and a chief editor of an independent daily to face trial for insulting the country’s newly elected Islamist president.
Wave of attacks rumbles across Iraq, killing 59
Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a relentless wave of attacks from before dawn until late at night Thursday, killing 59 people and wounding many more in a deadly show of force aimed at undermining the government's authority. Wave of attacks in northern, central Iraq kill 41
Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a wave of attacks from before dawn until late in the evening Thursday, killing 41 people and wounding dozens, the latest in a series of persistent strikes aimed at undermining the government's authority. Syrian FM claims rebels no match for military
Syria’s foreign minister defiantly dismissed rebel forces and their international backers on Thursday as incapable of toppling the military defending Bashar Assad’s regime, even as condemnation grew over expanded offensives that activists say have claimed dozens of civilian lives in recent days.
July is deadliest month of 2012 for US troops
At least 1,960 U.S. service personnel have been killed in Afghanistan over the course of the 11-year war. Casualties rose steadily each year before reaching a peak in 2010 when 492 personnel were killed. There has been a slight decrease in casualties since then, with 398 killed in 2011, and at least 218 so far this year. Even with the downward trend in deaths, however, one U.S. soldier has been killed every day this year on average. July has been the deadliest month of 2012 for U.S. troops, with 40 killed as a result of war-related violence.
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