Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: assange | The inventor of 'The Liberator' plastic firearm believes in an open future and the 'complete explosion' of all gun lawCody Wilson is a polite, 25-year-old law student at the University of Texas in Austin, with dark, close-cropped hair and a forward, affable charm. This week he plans to release the blueprint for a gun that can be downloaded from the internet and produced using a 3D printer.He and his friends have spent almost a year developing the Liberator, a "Wiki weapon" that can be assembled from components made on an $8,000 (£5,150) printer that they bought on eBay. Using files shared online, the machine creates the solid parts from layers of plastic.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: assange | While most foreign embassies occupy grand buildings in the Belgravia-Knightsbridge-Kensington triangle, North Korea has this inter-war semi in Ealing. How much does location matter in the diplomatic world?A sign appeared this week outside a semi-detached house in Ealing, west London, requesting people not to park outside because "loading work" was due to take place. That wouldn't normally make the news, but the house does happen to be the North Korean embassy. As a result, it led to speculation that, given the state's current aggressive posturing, the occupants might be moving out.That wasn't quite true – a new secretary is taking up residence – but it shone a light on the embassy's somewhat unusual location.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: assange | Julian Assange, who is living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, has a chronic lung infection, the country's ambassador to the UK warns.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: assange | When CNN's Atika Shubert interviewed Julian Assange a year ago, he walked out on her, angered by questions about alleged sexual assault. This time, holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he had nowhere to run.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: assange | The UK remains determined to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said after meeting his Ecuadorean counterpart in New York.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: assange | Ecuador's foreign minister is to meet UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday in a bid to resolve the row over Julian Assange.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: assange | The man responsible for airing the dirty laundry of governments around the world is going to ask for their sympathies on Wednesday.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: assange | American foreign ministers pass a motion backing the "inviolability of diplomatic missions" amid the UK and Ecuador's row over Julian Assange.
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Juan Cole er professor i historie og leder for Global Americana Institute.
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