Ecuador blew through nearly a million dollars a year hosting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, officials revealed Saturday.
The country shelled out a total of $6.5 million on behalf of Assange, who went into hiding there in August 2012 but was dragged out and arrested on Thursday. Most of that $6.5 million was spent on security, according to the Daily Mail. The rest was used for medical expenses, food and washing his clothing.
The 47-year-old asylum seeker was reportedly abusive toward the embassy staff, ate with his fingers, infrequently bathed or did laundry — and even smeared feces on the walls.
 
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Army says there's been no change since last summer, when the integration of women was frozen due to the financial cost, despite a successful pilot program

Meeting comes amid military offensive by Libyan commander to take capital Tripoli; UN health agency says fighting has killed 121 people in 10 days

PROGRAM:
11:35 Adrian Garbacz opens program
14:20 Yechiel Eisenstadt – Dinner Chaiman
21:40 The Rosh Hayshiva Shlita
38:18 Yaakov Young – Young Leadership Award presentation
42:55 Binyomin Greenstein – Alumnus of the Year Award presentation
47:30 Meilich Rubin – Kesser Shem tov Award presentation
50:45 Harav Chaim Boruch Rubin presents award
55:35 Mendy Horowicz – Harav Nosson Tzvi Memorial Award presintation
1:00:30 Mendy Horowicz responds
1:05:08 Yechiel Eisenstadt introduces Ralph Herzka
1:07:04 Ralph Herzka – Campaign Chairman
1:13:54 Jordan Slone – Guest of Honor presentation
1:18:25 Jordan Slone responds
1:23:49 Ralph Herzka thanks Co-chairman Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz

Berlin – Some 600 people have been evacuated from their homes in the old city of Frankfurt so specialists could remove a World War II-era bomb that was discovered in the Main River. The German news agency dpa reported the bomb was defused, as planned, underwater on Sunday, which led to a loud detonation and [...]

Court rules mother not responsible for her actions in killing the child in February in Eilat, will receive psychiatric treatment

New York – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down. All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were not loading as of early Sunday morning. Downdetector.com, a site that monitors site outages, shows Facebook has been down since 6:30 a.m. in much of the world, with thousands of reported outages concentrated in northeastern U.S., Europe [...]

Danny Faure issues call to action in first-ever live speech from submersible 400 feet below the waves of the Indian Ocean

President Trump tweeted on Saturday night that his administration has the legal right to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities and demanded it happen.
“Just out: The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities,” he wrote. “We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high taxes!”
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on Saturday told Fox News shortly before the announcement that the administration was working with DHS and ICE to try to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities.