s asylum options are strengthening his case to seek a safe harbour outside of Russia, legal experts claim. Snowden, who is believed to be in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, has received provisional offers of asylum from Nicaragua and Venezuela , and last night Bolivia also offered him sanctuary. He has applied to at least six other countries, says the Wikileaks organisation providing...
from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower who is believed to have spent the past two weeks at a Moscow airport evading US attempts to extradite him. The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, made the asylum offers on Friday, shortly after...
s Sheremetyevo airport since 23 June after flying in from Hong Kong. He has yet to receive a positive response to his applications for asylum. Some countries have yet to respond but a number have already rejected his request. Austria No. The interior minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, said Snowden would have to submit his request for asylum while on Austrian soil. But she added that he would not be deported...
s parliament is due to vote on Thursday on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Latin America's history – a trans-oceanic canal that is to be built and run by a Chinese company. If it goes ahead, the $40bn (£26bn) scheme, which is twice as expensive as Brazil's Belo Monte dam and likely to be three times longer than the Panama canal, looks set to transform global shipping and jump start the...
s Sandinista Front controls the national legislature with 63 out of 92 politicians. Opposition politicians voted against the proposal, saying the initiative was being rushed. The Chinese company, HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, is working with the Nicaraguan government on the canal project, which was announced last week . Experts say it may take 11 years to finish, cost $40bn and require...
s growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications. The president of the country's national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn (£26bn) project, which will reinforce Beijing's growing...
My son, Joss Perry, who has died suddenly aged 35, was a socialist and Labour party member, and his last job was an administrative one in the NHS. However, his real talent, evident from the number of people who attended his memorial event, was to make friends. Joss was born in Leicester, went to school there and was about to complete a part-time history course at Leicester University. As an adult,...
Eric Toth, wanted by the FBI for alleged child pornography offences, is arrested by police in Nicaragua ...