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Julian Assange has struck a plea deal with the U.S. authorities which will see him avoid extradition to the U.S. on espionage charges, according to UK media reports.

The Wikileaks founder will instead attend a court hearing in Saipan in the U.S. commonwealth territory of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific at 9 am local time on June 26.

Given the time difference and 20-hour flight time, Assange is believed to have already left the UK or be in the process of leaving the country imminently.

The deal ends a 14-year extradition battle with authorities in the U.S. where Assange is wanted on charges related to WikiLeaks’s 2010 internet dump of more than 500,000 secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other reports connected to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Per UK media reports, in return for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information,...

The UK High Court in London has adjourned a decision on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can mount a final appeal to fight his extradition from the UK to the U.S. until May 20.

U.S. Prosecutors want to try Assange on charges related to WikiLeaks’s release onto the internet in 2010 of more than half a million secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other pieces of content related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Judges at the Royal Courts in London said they were seeking further assurances on Assange’s treatment in the U.S. from authorities there and would take a final decision on May 20.

They said they would give the U.S. government three weeks to provide assurances that Assange could rely on the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution, (which protects free speech); that he would not be prejudiced by reason of his Australian nationality,...

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London as the result of a U.S. extradition request and is headed to court.

Assange was arrested inside the Ecuadorean Embassy after taking refuge seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault that has since been dropped.

The British Metropolitan Police revealed that he was arrested for “failing to surrender” and following an extradition request to the U.S.

“Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (Mps) at the Embassy of Ecuador, Hans Crescent, SW1 on a warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 29 June 2012, for failing to surrender to the court. He has been taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as is possible. The Mps had a duty to execute the warrant,...