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August 27, 2012

U.K. Withdraws Threat to Storm Ecuadorean Embassy 
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The British government has withdrawn its threat to seize Wiki Leaks
founder Julian Assange from his place of refuge in the Ecuadorean
embassy in London. Ecuador says it received notice from Britain over the
weekend that there is "no threat to enter the embassy." Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa hailed the news.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: "We consider this unhappy incident
to be over. A grave British diplomatic error, no? To say they are going
to enter our embassy. But we consider (this) over. However, I hope they
(British) don't distort what happened."