Ecuador's Correa: No Decision Yet on Assange Asylum Request
<div class='node-body'><p><span class="highlight-yellow">UPDATE:</span> (9:25 pm EST) Responding to a news story earlier in the day by <em>The Guardian </em>newspaper, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador strongly denied a report that claimed a final decision had been made to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum in his country.</p>
<p>"The story is false ... When we make the decision we'll explain very clearly the reasons, the legal framework, the analysis that we made to grant or not asylum to Mr Julian Assange," Correa told a press conference.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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