Julian Assange to go free as Wikileaks founder agrees US plea deal

After nearly 14 years ensconced at various times in a stately home, a foreign Embassy and then in a high security prison, the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the country.
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He had faced the threat of spending decades behind bars in an American federal jail, while critics say he put many lives at risk by releasing sensitive information.

But after reaching a plea deal with US authorities, all that stands between him and freedom is a court on a remote tropical island.
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