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THE CABLES

AFRICA

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe may be suffering from prostate cancer.

A fake uranium heist in Namibia.

Nigerian politicians are making money off of oil theft.

ASIA

Is Uzbekistan using its supply route to Afghanistan to mess with Russia?

150 NATO flights cross into Pakistani airspace each day.

Singaporean journalists claim they're restricted from reporting bad news about the government.

Even more revelations about Thailand's royal family.

The lavish lifestyle of Indian Dalit leader Mayawati (who says Julian Assange has "gone mad" for spilling the details).

China wanted to invest in U.S. banks during the 2008 financial meltdown.

EUROPE

Vladimir Putin's beef with Estonia.

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia wants the United States to give it Predator drones to use in Yemen.

Israeli military official: "We don't do Gandhi very well."

 

THE NEWS

Robert Mugabe has reportedly been badly shaken by the WikiLeaks revelations.

Has WikiLeaks lost its mojo now that the State Department cables are all out?

Assange accuses the Guardian of "negligence" for its role in the inadvertent release of the unredacted State Department cables.

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Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

They're all here now.

AFRICA

U.N. peacekeepers traded food for sex with underage girls in Ivory Coast.

Rwanda's police defend extra-judicial killings.

Private oilfield security companies in Sudan are "essentially a militia controlled by the government."

The miserable lives of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining industry.

Nigeria's oil-drenched Niger River Delta is even worse than you thought.

AMERICAS

Imprisoned U.S. government contractor Alan P. Gross is not doing well in Havana.

Oh great, the world is running out of helium, too.

ASIA

Former U.S. Ambassador (and current presidential hopeful) John Huntsman: China's one-child policy causes instability and sex-trafficking.

The politics of Wal-Mart's trade unions in China.

EUROPE

U.S. embassy staff in Belarus are accused of espionage by the state media.

Bad blood in the European aerospace business.

Why Greeks don't like the United States.

MIDDLE EAST

The U.N. says U.S. soldiers executed children in Iraq in 2006 (a story that had been reported inconclusively at the time). The Iraqi government is now investigating.

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham in November 2008, "I can deliver two thirds of the Israeli right-wing on anything we agree with the Palestinians, whether on process or interim agreements."

Armenian President Robert Kocharian in a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "[W]e both must work to find ways to live together in harmony."

Are telecom providers in the United Arab Emirates installing spyware on BlackBerries?

A Syrian governor invited Shakira and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to a hot-air balloon competition.

 

THE NEWS

The deluge. WikiLeaks blames (and sues) the Guardian. The Guardian blames WikiLeaks. The U.S. State Department calls the action "irresponsible, reckless, and frankly dangerous." Der Spiegel explains what exactly happened.

Julian Assange could face arrest in Australia for outing intelligence officials in the new batch of unredacted cables.

 

THE BIG PICTURE

How WikiLeaks learned the value of secrecy the hard way.

Is WikiLeaks desperate for attention, looking for a scapegoat, or just falling apart? Is this the end of Assange?

EXPLORE:WIKILEAKS

Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST

When Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman met Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2009 -- and promised to help him get military equipment from the United States.

The Obama administration urged McCain and Lieberman not to bring up the Lockerbie bomber at the meeting. (They did anyway.)

Qaddafi's weird inauguration letter to Barack Obama.

FP contributor Issandr El Amrani's WikiLeaks debut.

The U.S. Embassy in Manama requested talking points for answering questions about an allegedly tortured Bahraini Guantanamo detainee in 2005.

AMERICAS

Meet the Coast Guard officer who serves as a back-channel emissary to Havana.

ASIA

U.S. diplomats worry that China is dropping the ball on pollution monitoring and nuclear safety.

A U.S. diplomat went undercover as a Korean tourist to visit a Chinese tiger farm.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou told U.S. embassy officials in 2009 that People's Liberation Army activity in the Taiwan Strait could push Taiwan and China toward political talks.

An April Fools Day cable from the U.S. Embassy in Delhi.

THE NEWS

WikiLeaks drops a giant tranche of nearly 100,000 new cables -- we're still working through them -- and is reportedly unhappy with the media's mounting disinterest in its work. (A bit of advice from your humble Wikiblogger: Not releasing thousands of cables during the fall of Tripoli might help.)

WikiLeaks dissident Daniel Domscheit-Berg tells Wired he destroyed thousands of WikiLeaks documents "in order to ensure that the sources are not compromised."

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THE CABLES

AMERICAS

Iran shipped UAVs to Venezuela (via Turkey) in 2009.

The collapse of the Venezuelan opposition.

Cuban doctors working in Venezuela complained to embassy officials of being "politically manipulated" and underpaid.

ASIA

Did WikiLeaks out a Malaysian politician as gay?

THE NEWS

Another day, another WikiLeaks e-book, this one by a British journalist who seems to have been a bit too into Julian Assange.

Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

EUROPE

Russian intelligence services used dirty tricks to intimidate American democracy-promotion NGO workers.

MIDDLE EAST

U.S. embassy officials in Damascus asked the Bush and Obama administrations to sanction Syria, to no avail.

 

THE NEWS

The U.S. Congress confirms Earl Wayne as the replacement for the United States' WikiLeaks-ousted ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual.

Vaughan Smith (above right, with Assange in January), who's hosting Assange under the terms of his release, says the WikiLeaks founder "is like a moody teenager … hunted by pushy groupies."

 

THE BIG PICTURE

What WikiLeaks has in common with Rupert Murdoch.

A graphic novel tells the story of WikiLeaks (in Italian).

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

AMERICAS

Are Nicaraguan indigenous communities collaborating with drug traffickers?

The Vatican is wary of Latin America's leftists.

THE NEWS

Anonymous and WikiLeaks versus PayPal, Round 2.

Scotland Yard arrests a 19-year-old man suspected of being LulzSec's spokesman.

Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

AMERICAS

The hand of U.S. officials in Haitian politics from 2004 to 2006.

ASIA

The United States is anxious about China's growing influence in Cambodia.

EUROPE

U.S. officials worried that Norway was unprepared for a terrorist attack.

Lithuania's wayward press.

 

THE NEWS

Is Prince Andrew the latest WikiLeaks casualty?

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, under investigation by President Robert Mugabe's government for his statements in WikiLeaks cables, is cleared.

Fourteen people are arrested for a cyberattack on PayPal in solidarity with WikiLeaks.

How two LulzSec hackers got caught.

Julian Assange lawyer Mark Stephens may have been a target of News of the World's phone hacking.

Slavoj Zizek: Julian Assange "is like the boy who tells us the emperor is naked."

The U.S. Library of Congress no longer classifies WikiLeaks as an "extremist" website.

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

Posted By Charles Homans

THE CABLES

AFRICA

U.S. Embassy officials cautioned the Kenyan government to restrain itself in the violence following the country's 2007 election.

AMERICAS

The U.S. State Department's energy envoy urged Canada in 2009 to improve its "messaging" on a proposed oil-sands pipeline to the United States, including promoting "more positive news stories."

U.S. officials accused the leader of a pro-Cuban government peace group of threatening to pull U.S. medical students' scholarships if they met with the U.S. mission on the island in 2007.

ASIA

The Malaysian government's crackdown on bloggers in 2007.

 

THE NEWS

Julian Assange's extradition appeal decision is deferred. After his hearing -- complete with another round of more-than-you-wanted-to-know details about Assange's sex life -- Swedish prosecutors blast the Assange legal team's "19th Century" view of sexual consent.

Assange also found time to throw a big 40th birthday bash, inviting Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Oprah. (They didn't go.)

Wired releases the long-sought-after Adrian Lamo-Bradley Manning chat logs. Commentary from Salon's Glenn Greenwald, who had crusaded for their release, here.

U.N. torture investigator Juan Mendez says the U.S. government is violating U.N. rules in refusing him access to Manning.

Anonymous hacks military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. (And here's a helpful family tree of the hackers who've risen to prominence since the WikiLeaks saga began.)

Blocking WikiLeaks donations prompts a competition complaint against MasterCard and Visa in Europe.

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