Julian Assange US extradition ruling updates: Assange wins brief reprieve

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• The British High Court in London rules WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to appeal against his extradition to the United States unless the US provided assurances, including on death penalty.
• The judges said the US authorities had three weeks to give those assurances, with a final decision to be made in late May.
• Prosecutors in the US are seeking to put Assange on trial on charges of espionage relating to WikiLeaks’s release of classified documents relating to the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.