US recession is already here, warns Merrill The US has entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according to investment bank Merrill Lynch. Merrill, itself one of Wall Street's biggest casualties of the sub-prime crisis, is the first major bank to declare that a recession in the world's biggest economy is now underway.
Bagram detention centre now twice the size of Guantanamo The United States has quietly expanded the number of "enemy combatants" being held in judicial limbo at its Bagram military base in Afghanistan, a facility which has now grown to more than twice the size of the controversial and much more widely discussed military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Bagram has received just a fraction of the world attention paid to Guantanamo, but the two facilities have prompted very similar complaints – about prisoners held incommunicado for weeks or months, the lack of recourse to any system of legal redress, and persistent reports of prisoner mistreatment that many human rights campaigners have characterised as torture.
Huge fire hits Iraq oil refinery Reports from Iraq say the country's biggest oil refinery, at Baiji, has been badly damaged in a huge fire. The fire began with an explosion in the plant's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unit which had recently been 'repaired.'
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