The 47-year-old Australian sought asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations.
Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Britain’s ‘pervasive horror of knife crime’ reaches record for number of stabbing homicides
Two-hundred and eighty-five people died in knife-related homicides in England and Wales in 2018. It’s being call a national crisis.
After Kim-Trump summit collapse, North Korean leader holds talks with Vladimir Putin
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un made his first trip to Russia two months after his second denuclearization summit with President Donald Trump failed.
Suspects in Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka still at large, may be carrying explosives
At least 58 people have been detained in connection with the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, among the world’s worst terrorist attacks since 9/11.
‘New IRA’ blamed for fatal shooting of journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland
Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally wounded by shots fired toward police amid unrest that included dozens of ‘petrol bombs’ and two hijacked cars, police said
‘Raining fire’: Firsthand accounts from the Notre Dame Cathedral blaze
As Notre Dame burned, organist Johann Vexo and worshipers calmly filed out halfway through a reading of the Gospels.
Notre Dame fire: Paris Fire Brigade chaplain braved the blaze to rescue cathedral treasures
Paris’ public prosecutor Remy Heitz said Tuesday the cause of the fire that tore through the 850-year-old cathedral was not yet known.
Swedish prosecutors considering request to reopen Julian Assange rape case
The 47-year-old sought refuge in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 while facing extradition to Sweden in connection with sexual assault allegations.
European Union delays Brexit until Oct. 31, saving Britain from messy EU exit this week
The extension to Oct. 31 isintended to give British Prime Minister Theresa May more time to get her Brexit deal through Parliament.
Why Brexit, or Britain’s exit from European Union, is so important but so tough to finish
British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Labour Party hold meetings to finalize Brexit, Britain’s exit from the European Union.