United States: A federal judge ordered the release Tuesday of 17 Guantanamo detainees. The men are all Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, who have been held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly seven years. Bush administration lawyers have suggested that once the Uighurs are transferred to the U.S. the administration could again imprison the men, but it is expected the judge will forbid that. In past decades, the U.S. government has treated the group as Chinese nationalists. In 2003, however, in an effort to accommodate the Communist Chinese government, the Bush administration listed one of the Uighur groups as a terrorist organization, using this designation as a rationale for the Uighurs’ continued detention. Great Britain: The British government announced a multibillion-dollar rescue package for British banks Wednesday....
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