<div class='node-body'><p>Ahead of an expected decision by the Ecuadorean government on whether or not to grant political asylum for Julian Assange later today, the UK government on Wednesday notified officials in the Latin American country that it could, citing clauses in British domestic law, storm the embassy to arrest the founder of Wikileaks.</p>
<p>In the early hours of Thursday, an enlarged police presence was observed outside the embassy building in London.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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