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The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange's 12-year saga
WASHINGTON (AP) — About a year and a half ago, a lawyer for Julian Assange presented federal prosecutors in Virginia with a longshot request: Dismiss the case against the WikiLeaks founder. It was a bold ask given that Assange had published hundreds of thousands of secret...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice...
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Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf — and the furthermost reach of...
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WikiLeaks’ Assange pleads guilty to publishing US military secrets in deal that secures his freedom
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US that will allow him to walk free
WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified...
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