New career for WikiLeaks founder

18/04/12 06:59 CET

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become a talk show host. His first guest was Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The interview featured on a Russian backed channel and was conducted via a video link. Assange remains under strict bail conditions in England while he fights extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations.

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