Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 20, 2012
Julian Assange has thanked Ecuador's president Rafael Correa for the "courage he has shown" in granting him political asylum in his first public appearance from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. While Britain still denies Assange safe passage from London, Correa chastised the UK for their threats to storm the embassy to remove Assange, calling them "vulgar, inconsiderate and intolerable." He also...