Assange Loses Bid to Get British Bail Charge Dropped

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost a bid Tuesday to drop a British arrest warrant against him, which he had hoped would free him from his self-imposed exile in Ecuador's embassy in London. British Magistrates Court Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected his lawyers' argument that it was no longer in the public interest to uphold the warrant for breaching his bail conditions when he first walked into the embassy nearly six years ago to avoid being extradited to Sweden in a rape...

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