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UPDATE:Julian Assange has been indicted on 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday. “Assange, WikiLeaks affiliates and [Chelsea] Manning shared the common objective to subvert lawful restrictions on classified information and to publicly disseminate it,” the indictment said. *** WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was …

The country of Ecuador withdrew its political asylum for Julian Assange on Thursday, paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder’s arrest in the United Kingdom and possible extradition to the United States. Assange has lived in the country’s London embassy in since June 2012. On Twitter, Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, …