Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London after Ecuador withdrew asylum status.
"Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday, 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the Embassy of Ecuador," police said.
Police said they arrested him after being "invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government's withdrawal of asylum."
Assange had spent the last six years at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Intercepted missile debris damages kindergarten, clinic complex in Riyadh
Debris from a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi militia caused material damage to a kindergarten and a medical clinic complex in Riyadh after the missile was intercepted and destroyed, Saudi authorities said on Thursday.
Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold
A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said on Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on civilians in the key stronghold sought by Moscow.
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said on Thursday.
One dead, two injured in Poland's second school attack in two days
A 15-year-old former student killed one person and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday, police said, just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people, including himself, in an attack at another school.
French school blockades persist after PM's unspecified promises
French teenagers blockaded some high schools and prepared to rally again on Thursday after the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave no specific details.
