Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum

STORY: ECUADOR GRANTS ASSANGE ASYLUM DATELINE: August 16, 2012 LENGTH: 0:00:58 LOCATION: London CATEGORY: POLITICS PIC Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced on Thursday that the government has decided to grant Julian Assange asylum. Assange is currently holed up in Ecuador's London embassy. The announcement came after Britain had threatened to enter the embassy and arrest him. Assange, an Australian ex-hacker, is the founder of WikiLeaks website which published a trove of secret documents of several governments in 2010. The website released...

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