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A judge has rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request to loosen new living requirements, including paying for his internet and cleaning up after his cat, that he says are meant to push him into leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Key points: -Julian Assange takes up more than a third of the space in the small embassy -The new rules also require him to pay for his own medical and laundry services -Mr Assange's lawyer says he plans to appeal against the decision Judge Karina Martinez decided stricter rules recently imposed by the South American nation's embassy do not violate...

The worldwide market plunge since the signing of the U.S. debt agreement tells us one thing above all: Almost no one on the planet has confidence in the leadership of Barack Obama. A CEO with such a disastrous first three years as our president has had probably would already have been called upon to resign or been pushed out by his company’s board of directors — more than likely for some time. Obama has failed in virtually every direction, foreign and domestic. His policies indeed are almost non-existent. He is completely rudderless, unless you accept the view that he is...

Brent Regan, inventor and developer of the political social media website VoxVerus.com, recently wrote for his site an article entitled "Can We Afford to Believe Barack Anymore?" In 2008, he says then-presidential candidate Barack Obama "wooed the world" with one of the slickest marketing campaigns in history, and he points out that the president is now gearing up to do the same thing in 2012 by promising the same things, including a borrowed pledge. "Originally, he promised that he'd be focusing on jobs; now, he's promising that he's going to be focusing on jobs," Regan reports. "He had widely criticized...

GAZA CITY: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat defied on Wednesday a suggestion by Israel's new foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the Jewish state might use the cover of a US war on Iraq to deport him. "No one can expel me from my homeland," Arafat told journalists in Ramallah after receiving a delegation from the Orthodox Christian patriarchate from nearby Jerusalem. "They must remember that I am president Arafat," he was quoted by the official WAFA news agency as saying. Before he was even sworn in as foreign minister, Netanyahu repeated on Tuesday his long-standing enmity for Arafat, saying he regretted...