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Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib ... Bagram?
10:33pm Saturday 4th July 2009
INVESTIGATION: US detention centre under suspicion as eerily familiar claims OF torture and rendition flights surface from the airbase on the outskirts of Kabul. by Ian Pannell, BBC Afghanistan Correspondent

US launches make-or-break Helmand campaign in attempt to gain control of Taliban heartlands
10:35pm Saturday 4th July 2009
AFGHANISTAN: Operation Sword Strike seen as defining stage in American foreign policy
By Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor

Fear over Obama’s gun laws sparks massive rush to pack a pistol
10:28pm Saturday 4th July 2009
USA: NRA membership up 30% as public react to threat of handgun ban
From Andrew Purcell in New York

Booze, buffoonery and bullrunning … Pamplona’s San Fermin fiesta begins
10:25pm Saturday 4th July 2009
SPAIN: Goring optional as straight-laced northern Spanish town braces for annual week of madness
From Elizabeth Nash in Pamplona

Old rivals unite in condemnation of Honduras’ very modern coup
10:24pm Saturday 4th July 2009
TEGUCIGALPA: By Andrew McLeod

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