Sputnik spoke to a demonstrator for the #FreeAssange campaign holding a rally in front of the courthouse to learn more about what awaits Mr. Assange’s fate. The Wikileaks founder fled prosecution from Swedish authorities based on a pending investigation on alleged sexual assault charges.

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The curtains will finally drop on 23 May, when the election results are announced. The high stakes are 543 seats for India’s lower house of parliament. Being the expensive “dance” that it is, it will cost the Indian exchequer some $7 billion – more than the $6.5 billion spent on the last US presidential elections.

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UK junior Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan was asked on Thursday, 11 April, if Assange would be extradited to the United States and replied that Britain does not extradite people to countries where they could face the death penalty. But is that true and what will happen to Assange?

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The back-n-forth between India and Pakistan on Pulwama terror attack dossier has been going on for some time. India blamed Pakistan’s role in the attack and had submitted a detailed dossier to Pak authorities. Pakistan has kept on asking for additional details again seemingly eroding its credibility further.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years. that’s after Ecuador’s president Moreno withdrew asylum.
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Ecuador has withdrawn an asylum it granted to Julian Assange, the country’s president declared as the WikiLeaks founder was being evicted from Ecuadorian embassy where he was hiding for the last six years.
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The arrest of the WikiLeaks’ founder comes following a revelation made by the whistleblowing platform that Assange had been spied upon, with the data presumably being transferred to the US.

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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – Syria has the right to return the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for over 50 years, by any means possible, and the military option is not excluded, the director of the Golan Heights Department in the Syrian government, Midhat Saleh, told Sputnik on Thursday.

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