Obama: ‘We won’t torture in X-Ray’
US president-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, saying: "I'm going to make sure that we don't torture." In his first TV interview since winning the election, Obama said that he planned to rebuild his country's "moral stature in the world". Flanked by his... [continued]
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Alexander Cockburn: Economic woes pile into Obama's in tray
Social services split over Baby P
A senior social worker and the police did not want the child known as Baby P to be returned to his mother's care after he was found to have unexplained injuries, but were overuled by Harringey council, it has been alleged. Baby P died on August 3 2007, eight... [continued]
The Mole: Cameron gets bogged down in child abuse row
France holds Basque ‘terror chief’
The French government has announced that it is holding the suspected military chief of Basque separatist group Eta. Interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias "Txeroki", was arrested last night in the south of the country. Rubina is the key suspect in the 2007 murder of two... [continued]
Unemployment to hit 2.9m by 2011
There could be as many as 2.9m unemployed in the UK by 2011, the CBI has warned. The business group said today that it believes the recession will be more severe, and last for longer, than previously thought. The economy is now forecast to shrink by 1.7 per... [continued]
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Organ donation plans rejected
The UK Organ Donation Task Force has rejected Government proposals to move to a system of "presumed consent". The group said it had found little evidence that changing the rules on organ donation so that people who did not want to donate would have to specifically opt out would increase... [continued]
The Pros and Cons of compulsory organ donation
Russia: reporter murder trial opens
Several men have gone on trial in Moscow over the 2006 murder of campaigning journalist, and open critic of the Kremlin, Anna Politkovskaya. Four men have been charged with complicity in the plot, but it is not clear how many of them are being tried currently. The trial... [continued]
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