9th July, 2013

·         New Edward Snowden video interview released 

·         Ireland's High Court refuses to grant arrest warrant for Snowden - The Irish Times 

·         President of Zimbabwe tells gay couples to have a baby or they face jail "“I should like to shut them up in some room and see if they get pregnant. If they don’t then its jail because they have claimed they can have children. So, to that kind of rot, we say no!” 

·         Billionaire Gives His $3 Million Bonus To Workers 

·         A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Pink concert in Australia after he tweeted a reference to the singer's “Timebomb” song 

·         Bradley Manning lawyer calls for 'aiding the enemy' charges to be dropped 

·         Video captures camouflaged military sniper firing into a crowded demonstration in Cairo

·         Pentagon Papers leaker: Snowden was right to run 

·         Ruling party in Turkey stops own bill, thinking it was proposed by the opposition

·         Al-Jazeera kicked out of Egypt news conference 

·         Edward Snowden reveals Australia's Links To Secret US Spy Program 

·         Mos Def force fed under standard "Gitmo" procedure to demonstrate the treatment of the hunger strikers. 

·         Canadians continue to trade fundamental freedoms away to the Harper Government for "security"

·         Snowden: US and Israel created Stuxnet 

·         Osama bin Laden was stopped for speeding in car while on run in Pakistan report reveals

·         US escalates threats against governments considering asylum for Snowden 

·         US judge denies Guantánamo Bay prisoner's request to end force-feeding: Only Obama has to power to intervene in hunger strike, judge says, as she denies one of four requests to end practice 

·         Pakistani commission: Bin Laden assassination "an act of war" (binladenfiles) 

·         UN report says Mexicans are the heaviest on the planet, outweighing Americans even as they battle hunger and malnutrition. 

·         The European Union has brokered a legally-binding deal to improve worker rights and safety standards in Bangladesh, but some US companies, including Wal-Mart and Gap, have opted out, on the grounds that the deal gives too much power to local unions. 

·         Canada's new chief scientist proclaims: “Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.” 

·         Donald Trump fails to deliver on Scottish golf resort jobs pledge. By his own admission, Mr Trump has created no more than 200 of his promised 6,000 jobs 

·         Toronto battered by storm, flooding; 300,000 residents in the dark 

·         Massacre in Cairo 

·         Snowden links New Zealand to US global surveillance spy programme 

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