Julian Assange in last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to the US

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The case of Julian Assange is back before Britain’s high court in what’s likely to be the WikiLeaks founder’s last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to the US. Assange is wanted by US authorities for disclosing secret military files in 2010 and 2011. He has already spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019, has been held in a high-security prison in the UK. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry joined host Marco Werman with the latest.

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