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ECUADOR HAS GRANTED political asylum to Julian Assange, two months after he took refuge in its London embassy.
However authorities in the UK have said that the decision by Ecuador “changes nothing” and that the Wikileaks founder will still be extradited to Sweden.
Ecuador’s foreign minister this afternoon said that the country believed that Assange’s fears of persecution were legitimate and that his human rights could be violated.
The Foreign Office in the UK said it was “disappointed” by the statement from Ecuador’s Foreign Minister but said UK authorities are under “binding obligation” to extradite him to Sweden.
“Under our law, with Mr Assange having exhausted all options of appeal UK authorities are under binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden,” the Foreign Office said this afternoon.
“We shall carry out that obligation. The Ecuadorian Government’s decision this afternoon does not change that”.
The Foreign Office said that it remains committed to a negotiated solution that allows it to carry out its obligations under the Extradition Act.
The Ecuadorian government accused the UK of making ‘dangerous’ threats as it deliberated over whether to grant political asylum to the Wikileaks founder, who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Assange claims that Sweden could turn him over to the US where he could face charges of espionage and conspiracy after Wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables in 2011.
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I really really enjoy reading the Journal. Love it actually, however too often lately I’m seeing way too many of these stories. This to me isnt news. It’s not entertainment. It’s not sport and it’s not business. It doesnt appear to fit into any journal.ie category at all. It’s a non-story telling us of a flight that originated in London and is due to terminate in New York. I could maybe understand if it originated in Ireland and then the information may be of some use to Irish passengers or their relatives but this is a total non-event. Hundreds of planes get diverted every single day. Should you not balance things out by reporting on all of them?
I’m trying not to complain as generally I love reading the journal. Too much in fact, but this is just silly.
Rant over, finally going to bed :)
Are you aware that many people who travel between New York and Ireland go by a non-direct route and use flights like this one from London?
I’m guessing to allow you to read new articles every 20 minutes or so there are going to be stories that are not very exciting or of little interest but I would advise that prior to judging check out RTE, BBC and Sky News website where you are lucky if they update or add additional stories every 24 hours…………..
@The Green Monkey. Thats very true. And I avoid sites that dont update their news regularly. I do feel though that putting up stories like this cheapens the product to a certain extent and may put people off reading. I also realise that I should have commented via the ‘send a tip’ option or e-mailed Susan directly!!
I found it interesting, but then i also like this.
http://www.flightradar24.com/
Posting about a missing dog 30mins after it was found isn’t news either.
Another Flight UA2064 from Dublin to Newark, had to turn back to Dublin yesterday after a nine-year-old girl from the US had a suspected anaphylactic shock on-board which had been brought on by a nut allergy. (http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/plane-diverted-back-to-dublin-after-girls-nut-allergy-mid-flight-30485020.html)
Ebola in the back door..
Give it up, Frank, with your paranoia nonsense!
Here, Frank, go see if you can turn BA01749 (oh, look, a seven!) into three 7s. It should keep you occupied for a couple of hours.
Why didn’t the plane continue on after the ill person was removed from the aircraft? Why wait until this evening?
Probably wasn’t allowed to take off from Dublin that late due to noise restrictions. Then it has to wait for available slots. Passengers would also have to have all their bags unloaded and then rechecked, plus security and customs. Plus perhaps evening take offs To the USA Are best due to time differences. But that’s only a guess.
The crew would be out of hours
I believe the crew would have exceeded legal working time limits somewhere over the Atlantic so had to rest crew
The crew wouldn’t have been out of hours, the crew can work 19 hrs 15 mins from base
19hrs with a relied crew maybe, not on a LHR to JFK, 12hrs with 2hrs pilots discretion, 14hrs in total, when they landed in DUB they were already 7hrs into shift, only left them with 7hrs including the 2hrs pilots discretion, 1 hour on the ground in DUB, another 7 or 8 to JFK, depending if they were put in a hold or not. Definitely out of hours
Relief*
I tend to agree with Miguel. It’s starting to become a Journal.ie craze for click bait since MH370 and MH17. There were at least four other diversions over the UK and Ireland by aircraft in the past 24 hours (Lufthansa, American Airlines, EasyJet, and another BA flight). This is run-of-the-mill stuff everyday. Diversions and emergencies happen on flights.
I’m starting to think that someone on the Journal.ie staff is spending far too much time on FlightRadar.
A non story, happens multiple times each day worldwide.
This isn’t even news.
Not to you, so let the rest of us enjoy it in peace
Weirdo
Yes…you called ?
So it was due to land at 9PM local time in NY, which is 2 AM irish time… and it diverted at midnight?
Would New York not have been closer if it was only 2 hours away??? I can’t find anything on flightradar24.com for this flight code…. odd…
The flight was a few hours late leaving Heathrow as it was. They were off the west coast when they turned around and came back to Dublin. It was a good bit before midnight when it landed in Dublin Airport. Flight code was BA 179(BAW179) and it was a 777-236.
That makes more sense… thanks:
It has taken off now and it’s on the way to JFK….
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