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Sweden

Assange to be to questioned 'soon'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could face questions from Swedish prosecutors "in the coming days" at his hideout in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Correa did not give a date for the interrogation over a 2010 rape allegation, which Assange denies, but said it would happen "very soon". Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden and has been confined there since.