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The WikiLeaks founder left a British prison and flew out of the UK today after US prosecutors said he would have to plead guilty this week to violating the US Espionage Act, in a deal that could allow him to return home to Australia. U.S.

prosecutors said in court documents that Assange agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.



S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, Reuters reported. Assange is scheduled to be sentenced at a hearing on the island of Saipan at 9 a.

m. local time on Wednesday. He will likely be given credit for time already served and will not receive a new prison sentence, according to Reuters.

Assange became America's "public enemy number one" when his website WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents about Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the biggest security incident of its kind in US military history, along with a series of diplomatic cables. More than 700,000 documents, diplomatic cables, and battlefield reports are estimated to have been released, such as a 2007 video of a US Apache helicopter firing on suspected insurgents in Iraq, killing a dozen people, including two Reuters journalists. That video was released in 2010.

Ten years ago, Assange gave an interview to "Blic", in which, among other things, he warned two countries that are still "between two fires" - Serbia and Ukraine. When asked .

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