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Julian Assange LIVE | Australia Welcomes Julian Assange Home | US Guilty Plea | WikiLeaks Founder | CNBC TV18 SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands/CANBERRA, June 26 (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free on Wednesday from a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that allowed him to head straight home to Australia. His release ends a 14-year legal saga in which Assange spent more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London battling extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations and to the U.S., where he faced 18 criminal charges. #JulianAssane WikiLeaks #USANews #AustraliaNews #LiveNews #CNBCTV18