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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing a decisive two-day court case in the United Kingdom that will decide whether he is to be extradited to the United States on spying charges. The High Court of London is expected to decide by Wednesday on whether it should block the 52year-old’s extradition to the US, where he faces 18 counts of espionage for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents in 2010 related to the US military’s conduct during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Australian journalist and ethical hacker has been held at Belmarsh prison in the UK since April 2019. …