Japanese stocks soar as wider markets bounce from brutal selloff

By Amanda Cooper and Vidya Ranganathan LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Global stocks retreated on Tuesday, surrendering earlier gains, as the uncertainty generated by the previous day’s aggressive selloff weighed on investor sentiment, even though central bank officials said all the right things …

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After this week’s Julian Assange court hearing, this is clear: extradition would amount to a death sentence | Duncan Campbell

Which is the more serious criminal activity: extrajudicial killings, routine torture of prisoners and illegal renditions carried out by a state, or exposing those actions by publishing illegally leaked details of how, where, when and by whom they were committed? …

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