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The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to social media following his arrest on Thursday to beg authorities to be kind to him.

“I know nothing really about it – it’s not my deal in life,” Trump said. 

China formally accused – but did not yet formally charge – Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig of espionage on Monday. The two were arrested soon after Canada detained Huawei executive and Communist royalty Meng Wanzhou for possible extradition to the United States. The accusation of espionage was made three days after Canada announced Meng’s extradition hearing would proceed.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his ambassador to China, John McCallum, on Saturday over remarks McCallum made about the arrest and possible extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Canada’s ambassador to the United States, David McNaughton, said in an interview on Monday that the United States will proceed with its extradition request for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

The Canadian government said on Wednesday that police have detained a third Canadian citizen in China. While Ottawa provided no details of the arrest, an official said there is “no reason to believe that this case is linked” to the detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – whose arrests last week were in turn clearly linked to Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

The Chinese government has said little about its reasons for arresting Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor this week, but on Thursday, the state-run Global Times published an editorial explicitly framing the arrests as revenge for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Saud al-Mojeb, the public prosecutor of Saudi Arabia, arrived in Istanbul on Sunday night for meetings with Turkish officials over the investigation of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested an Iraqi refugee in Sacramento, California on Wednesday on the authority of an arrest warrant for the 2014 murder of an Iraqi police officer issued by an Iraqi judge on May 16.

A burial ceremony was held on Sunday at the Ruhanga Genocide Memorial for 157 victims of the 1994 atrocity in Rwanda, the latest repetition of an observance held on April 15 of every year.

The Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement on Thursday warning its citizens to be careful if they travel abroad because the United States is “hunting” for Russians to arrest.

Un presunto asesino de un cártel mexicano fue capturado luego de ingresar ilegalmente a Texas en un tramo remoto de la frontera en el sector de Del Río. El presunto asesino, José Antonio Hernández Rangel, es conocido como “Scarface” y las autoridades mexicanas lo identificaron por trabajar con una facción de Los Zetas conocida como CDN, o Cártel del Norte. CDN es la facción de Los Zetas en control y con sede en Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, inmediatamente al otro lado de la frontera de Laredo, Texas.

An alleged Mexican cartel assassin was caught after illegally entering Texas on a remote stretch of border in the Del Rio Sector. The alleged assassin, Jose Antonio Hernandez Rangel, is known as “Scarface” and he has been identified by Mexican authorities as working with a faction of Los Zetas known as CDN, or Cartel of the North. CDN is the Los Zetas faction in control of and headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, immediately across the border from Laredo, Texas.

A court in Beijing handed down 85 lengthy prison sentences for telephone fraud on Thursday. 44 of the defendants hail from Taiwan, including the two who received the harshest 15-year sentences. The cases are part of a massive wave of telephone scams sweeping China, with tens of millions of dollars stolen.

A Filipino doctor facing charges of plotting terror attacks in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State will fight extradition to the United States, his lawyer has confirmed.

The administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long portrayed former imam Fethullah Gulen as the sinister mastermind who orchestrated last year’s failed coup attempt from his home in Pennsylvania. Turkey demanded Gulen’s extradition from both the Obama and Trump administrations and denounced their failure to hand him over as outrageous.

TEL AVIV – A 267-kilogram shipment of cocaine hidden in bags of coal and bound for Israel was intercepted by Spanish authorities on Tuesday.

Fugitive director Roman Polanski’s latest legal bid to return to the United States has been denied by a Los Angeles judge.

TEL AVIV – In a first, the U.S. has issued an extradition request for a Jordanian woman charged with the killing of Americans in a Jerusalem bombing during the Second Intifada.

A Mexican family whose son was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the agent violated their son’s constitutional rights by using unnecessary deadly force. A preliminary issue is whether the Constitution applies to someone who is not a citizen of the U.S. and was standing on Mexican soil at the time of the shooting.

Fugitive director Roman Polanski will reportedly attempt to have his decades-long child rape case resolved so that he may return to the United States without fear of arrest or incarceration.

On Wednesday, Julian Assange’s lawyer said the WikiLeaks founder was backing away from his offer to accept extradition to the United States if WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning went free.

Mexico has announced the extradition of Mexican Drug Lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States after Poland’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the country to have the director returned to U.S. custody, where he is still wanted for a decades-old statutory rape conviction.

Turkey has not forgotten about exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen nor abandoned its demands for his extradition from the United States. In fact, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag is currently en route to Washington to discuss extradition with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Wikileaks email with the subject heading “Cecil the lion” reveals that Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, asked a New York Times journalist to write an op-ed calling for the extradition of Cecil’s killer.

The AFP and Times of Israel report: The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected an appeal by an Israeli man against extradition to the US, where he has been charged with selling arms — including spare parts for fighter jets

Reuters reports that Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on August 24, meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, in the first visit by a high-ranking U.S. official since the failed coup attempt in July.

Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer representing the Turkish government, appeared on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his exclusive article at Breitbart News, “Turkey: Is the Gülen Organization a Cult?”

Turkey has demanded the extradition of imam Fethullah Gulen, who has been living in the United States since the turn of the millennium, to face charges for masterminding the failed July 15 coup attempt.