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British High Court grants Julian Assange’s extradition to U.S.

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, can be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, the Royal Courts of Justice ruled on Friday. The British High Court overturned a lower court ruling earlier this year. Assange, 50, is wanted in the U.S. on allegations of disclosing national defence information following WikiLeaks’s publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked military documents…