Sweden in pursuit of WikiLeaks founder

SWEDISH police have said that technical problems hindering the arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, had been overcome, and a British newspaper said he was in Britain.

A Swedish court upheld an arrest order for the 39-year-old Australian for alleged sexual crimes, refusing to let him appeal a lower court’s ruling. He denies the allegations.

A spokesman for WikiLeaks said Assange had received assassination threats and had to remain out of the public eye.