A brief list of news for the day:
Guantanamo Bay case thrown out. “The US military’s system of tribunals at Guantánamo Bay was thrown into chaos today after a military judge threw out all charges against a young Canadian detainee.” >> News at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2095276,00.html
The true value of what the G8 gives in aid. “But on the eve of the latest G8 summit, in the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm in Germany this week, it is clear the rich world is well off track to deliver what the world’s eight most powerful leaders signed up to after the biggest political lobby in history, a massive global campaign to make poverty history that culminated in 10 Live8 concerts watched by more than half the population of the world.” >> News at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2611752.ece
Turkish threat echoes across Iraq. “Beleaguered Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who could be days away from losing US support and with it his job, is seeking renewed Kurdish support, even expressing his full backing for the Kurds in a potentially disastrous confrontation with Turkey.” >> News at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF05Ak03.html
Permanent US bases in Iraq. “While US President George W Bush appears, however belatedly, to be embracing recommendations by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to begin withdrawing US combat troops by early next year, he has implicitly rejected the ISG’s call to renounce any intention to establish permanent military bases in Iraq.” >> News at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF05Ak02.html
New clashes at second Lebanon camp. “Overnight clashes at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon between the army and the group, Jund al-Sham, have left at least four people dead.” >> News at: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FB6DB194-3DF2-4D0D-91D3-69D9660F1DD2.htm
Putin warning over US missile row. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow is preparing to take retaliatory measures if the US builds missile defence systems in Europe.” >> News at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6717119.stm and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/world/europe/04cnd-putin.html?hp
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