On Wednesday last, Julian Assange asked that he be allowed out from behind the bulletproof glass that encloses the dock.

The continued incarceration of former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for her refusal to testify to a grand jury amounts to torture, a United Nations official has said.

Roger Stone, a long-time friend and ally of US President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks at a UK court for a bail breach offence.

Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street is 850m metres long.

Let us join forces to block Assange’s extradition from any European country to the US, so that he can travel to Stockholm and give his accusers an opportunity to be heard, writes Yanis Varoufakis

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given an award established in honour of an assassinated journalist.

It is hard to imagine that the Julian Assange affair will end well.

We condemn the arrest in London this week of the WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange and call for his release.

The Government should not find it too difficult to meet its responsibility in facilitating the return of former Air Corps corporal Lisa Smith and her child from Syria, UN special rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has said.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Julian Assange has been found guilty of breaching his bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and faces a jail sentence of up to 12 months when he is sentenced at Crown Court.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London this morning.

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Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in asylum at the nation's embassy in London for more than five years.

The British Foreign Office turned down a request from the Ecuadorian government to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange diplomatic status.

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election.

We may well admire the whistleblower in the abstract but the organisations we, and they, belong to, are more primitive in their reactions, writes Mary Morrissy

Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks to Matthew Shaer about why she did it - and the isolation that followed.

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from reports that he is a "person of interest" in the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

A former foreign policy adviser to US president Donald Trump has branded a congressional probe into possible interference by Russia in last year's American election "a comically fake inquiry".

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The CIA has reportedly concluded that Russia intervened in the US election to help Donald Trump win.

A Swedish prosecuting official has arrived at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to be present while Julian Assange is interviewed about a sex allegation.

The Ecuadorian government has welcomed moves by the Swedish authorities to interview Julian Assange inside its embassy over a sex allegation.

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Julian Assange will be interrogated inside the Ecuadorian embassy over sexual assault allegations in Sweden.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.