Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on Monday given permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the United States.Washington wants to put the 50-year-old Australian on trial in connection with WikiLeaks’ publication of 500,000 secret military files relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The High Court in London in December overturned a lower court’s ruling not to send him to the United States on the grounds he would be a suicide risk. Lawyers for Assange then challenged…Read More