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World Service,24 May 2019,53 mins

US files new charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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The United States has unveiled 17 new charges against Julian Assange and hopes to extradite the WikiLeaks founder, who is serving a prison sentence in the UK. Taiwan begins its first legal gay marriage registrations. We speak to the new top UN official coordinating the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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