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Julian Assange’s Asylum Gamble: End of the Wikileaks Saga?

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This may be the Wikileaks hacktivist’s endgame: a last-ditch effort to find refuge with the Ecuadorian government. Mac Margolis on how Assange’s dangerous game might play out

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In a modest first-floor flat of a five-story redbrick townhouse, just south of Hyde Park and behind a Harrods store, the world’s most prized fugitive brushes up on Spanish as he plots his getaway.

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