Julian Assange loses permission to appeal at UK’s top court

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top court has refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges. The court said Monday it refused because the case “didn’t raise an arguable point of law.” The decision appears to exhaust Assange’s legal avenues in the U.K.to avoid a trial in the U.S. on a series of charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents more than a decade ago. But he could still seek to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.