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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has arrived on the island of Saipan ahead of his court hearing, Wikileaks said on Wednesday. On Tuesday it was revealed Assange had struck a deal with the United States in the long-running dispute over his extradition. Assange is expected to plead guilty at the court hearing to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain and distribute classified documents as part of a deal with the US justice system and be sentenced to more than five years in prison. The sentence corresponds to the length of time the whistleblower has already spent in a high-security prison in London. The...
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Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks whistleblowing publisher, has struck a deal with the United States in the long-running dispute over his extradition and is expected to be released. According to Wikileaks, after being released from British custody, Assange took off for the Western Pacific on Tuesday evening after a stopover of several hours in Bangkok. The agreement in principle will allow Assange - who has been held in jail in the United Kingdom in a years-long extradition dispute - to be released to freedom in exchange for pleading guilty to espionage before a US court. Washington acc...
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The plane carrying Julian Assange, who according to the Wikileaks whistleblowing publisher he founded has been released from British custody, took off for the Western Pacific on Tuesday evening after a stopover of several hours in Bangkok. The Bombardier charter plane is flying from Thailand's capital to the island of Saipan, which belongs to the Northern Mariana Islands and is a foreign territory of the United States. The aircraft is expected to arrive early Wednesday morning. On the flightradar24 flight-tracking platform, flight number VJT199, which Assange's wife Stella and Wikileaks had pr...
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has welcomed a planned plea deal for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with the United States. "I can only say that I am very happy that this case, which has been discussed very emotionally all over the world and has moved many people, has finally found a solution," Baerbock said on Tuesday during a visit to Jerusalem in response to questions from journalists. The agreement in principle will allow Assange - who has been held in jail in the United Kingdom in a years-long extradition dispute - to be released to freedom in exchange for pleading guilty to e...
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A plane in which Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is believed to be travelling on arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday, in the first part of a deal with the United States that set him free from prison in Britain and ends a long legal odyssey. After his layover in Bangkok, the Australian national flies to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US Pacific island territory. There he is to plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents at a federal courthouse. In return, Assange will be spared imprisonment in the United States. Following his plea ...
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said his country was providing assistance to Julian Assange following the news that the Wikileaks founder agreed to plead guilty in a deal with the US and that he has left the UK. "The government is certainly aware that Australian citizen Mr Julian Assange has legal proceedings scheduled in the United States," Albanese told Australia's parliament during Question Time, calling the news a "welcomed development." According to court documents filed on Monday, Assange was set to plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose cla...
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with the US Justice Department and return to Australia, court documents filed on Monday state. The agreement would see Assange pleading guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to court documents published on Monday evening. The deal is still to be approved by a US federal judge. Assange is expected to attend a hearing on the island of Saipan on Wednesday before returning to Australia, the court documents state. Assange is accused of having stolen and publi...
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Britain's Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) loved the sea. Her "Bathing Machine," a rolling beach cabin to protect her privacy, can still be seen today on the private beach of her country estate Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Try taking a dip in the cool waters today though and you may find yourself swimming in raw sewage. Cowes Beach, near Queen Victoria's former home, is the most polluted beach in the country, awash with raw sewage, according to a new analysis. Dirty water flowed into the sea there for almost 5,000 hours last year, official data analysed by environmental campaigners Friends ...
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British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of the acquisition of Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs). AstraZeneca, through a subsidiary, has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Fusion as per the definitive agreement. The acquisition was executed under a plan of arrangement, with each share priced at $21.00 in cash at closing and an additional non-transferable contingent value right of $3.00 per share in cash payable upon the attainment of a specified regulato...
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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia on Friday claimed to have attacked a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea in response to airstrikes in areas controlled by the group. The Houthi military spokesman Yehya Saree said the group had fired missiles at the carrier Eisenhower, and the hit was "precise and direct." He added that the United States and Britain had mounted a series of airstrikes in the militia-controlled capital Sana'a, and the provinces of Hodaidah and Taiz. The strikes left civilian and military casualties, including 16 dead in Hodaidah, the official added in a televised statement. Ear...
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