MUSIC NEWS: Nile Rodgers seems to be in so many places at the moment you shouldn’t be surprised if he pops his head out of your fridge when you reach for that cold drink later today.

The Taoiseach and sections of the media may want to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but in reality, Obama is no friend of the Irish people, writes Clare Daly

The number of Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike has grown from 15 to 26 in a week.

As I read the Irish Examiner (Jan 22) and about US President Barack Obama’s inauguration, I was taken aback by the editorial.

The chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals said that he is seeking to withdraw one of the eight charges against five men accused of planning and aiding the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Secret documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay reveal new information about some of the men the US believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files.

The Guantanamo tribunal system was preparing today for its first trial under President Barack Obama.

ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York for trial in a civilian federal court and he expects to seek the death penalty.

FOUR Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, US officials said.

A delegation from the European Union questioned the Obama administration about Guantanamo Bay as member states consider whether to accept a US request to take some of the detainees when the controversial jail is shut.

The Obama administration is trying to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by British prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo Bay.

A jury of US military officers at Guantanamo’s second war-crimes trial reached a verdict that could put Osama bin Laden’s alleged “media secretary” and videomaker in prison for life.

THE Pentagon said yesterday it has dropped war crimes charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees after the former prosecutor in their cases complained that the military was withholding evidence helpful to the defence.

THE term Kangaroo Court takes on a new meaning at Guantanamo.

THE US Supreme Court has ruled detainees held in the US military base at Guantanamo Bay have the right to appeal to federal courts in a fresh blow to the Bush administration.

In a stunning turnaround, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay says he will be a defence witness for the driver of terror chief Osama bin Laden.

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and move terror suspects from there to military prisons on US soil, it emerged last night..

A man US authorities accuse of helping arrange financing for at least one of the September 11 hijackers says he is an ordinary businessman who has family ties to alleged terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed but is not part of al Qaida or other terrorist groups.

THE unexpected guilty plea of an Australian who was the first Guantanamo detainee to stand trial before a military tribunal was likely linked to a deal with prosecutors, the man’s father said yesterday.

The US government wants a judge to appoint a special panel to review legal documents seized from Guantanamo Bay detainees, as part of an investigation into the apparent suicide deaths of three prisoners.

The European Union – which has been harshly critical of US prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and the detention centre for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – today urged all nations to sign a global convention against torture and condemned the practice for any reason.

US President George Bush and European leaders urged Iran and North Korea today to give up military and nuclear ambitions that they said threaten each country’s neighbours and destabilise the world.

The US Defence Department yesterday identified the three Guantanamo detainees who committed suicide, saying one had ties to al-Qaida, another fought for the Taliban and a third had been cleared for transfer to another country.

The US government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

THE United States has come under international fire after a United Nations report said it should shut the prison at Guantanamo Bay used for terror suspects and release the detainees or put them on trial.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday rejected an assertion that CIA operatives would have the power to come to Ireland to interrogate people in secret.

Suspected terrorists will continue to be held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said US Vice President Dick Cheney, amid concerns by some fellow Republicans the situation may be counterproductive.

Sayed Salahuddin, Kabul

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the United States military base in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba during a mass protest in 2003, the United States military confirmed.

Three months after a get-tough US general took command of the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, prisoners began a flurry of suicide attempts, according to military records.

Detainees at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay have provided little intelligence and their value has been exaggerated by the Bush Administration, a newspaper investigation claimed today.

THE American general who was in charge of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib was yesterday involved in an astonishing war of words with her superiors after she said the commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre told her to treat the prisoners “like dogs”.

The American general who was in charge of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib was today involved in an astonishing war of words with her superiors, who accused her of lying.

Videos capturing the actions of a US military squad assigned to subdue disobedient prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have emerged as key pieces of evidence as American politicians look into complaints of abuse.

Two British men released from the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay say interrogators forced prisoners to strip, chained them to a floor for hours and used deafening music and dogs to extract confessions.

The US Army has dropped all charges against a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents at the naval base detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected terrorists are held.