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.
Washington targets Iran's fortified missile sites near Hormuz
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced late on Tuesday that its forces are carrying out strikes at fortified missile sites on the Iranian coast near the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran confirms death of security chief Larijani
Iran has confirmed the death of senior political figure Ali Larijani, a key member of the country’s security establishment, amid ongoing regional conflict.
Trump says NATO's refusal to help on Iran is 'very foolish'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States had been informed by most of its NATO allies that they did not want to get involved with the country's military operation in Iran, a move he described as a "very foolish mistake".
US National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over war in Iran
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first and most senior member of US President Donald Trump's administration to resign over the war in Iran, saying Tehran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
France will never take part in operations to unblock Hormuz Strait, says Macron
President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, pushing back on comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that Paris was willing to help.
UAE authorities have announced on Wednesday morning that they are responding to another wave of missile and drone threats from Iran.
His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of Iran’s attacks targeting the UAE.
The UAE's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said air defences were responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran early on Wednesday morning.
