World News | Julian Assange Loses Permission to Appeal at UK's Top Court

London, Mar 14 (AP) Britain's top court on Monday refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges.

The court said it refused because the case “didn't raise an arguable point of law.”

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The decision appears to exhaust Assange's legal avenues in the U.K. to avoid a trial in the U.S. on a series of charges related to WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents more than a decade ago.

But he could still seek to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. (AP)

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