In Brief

* COUP – The United States embassy in Manila warned of a possible coup attempt against Philippine President Gloria Arroyo as early as April this year, a newspaper said.

* JUSTICE – A hunger strike at the US military’s prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military’s effort to manage hundreds of terrorism suspects, The New York Times reported. * PROTESTS – The end of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s landmark North American tour was marked by protests in Vancouver on Canada’s west coast, much like it started nine days earlier.* WITHDREW – Indonesia’s military withdrew hundreds more troops from Aceh province, a spokesman said, following the first phase of disarmament by separatist rebels under a pact designed to end nearly three decades of war.* TRIAL – Two former Afghan military intelligence officials will go on trial in The Hague on Monday on charges of committing human rights violations including execution and torture during the 1980s.* IMMIGRANTS – Greek port authorities have intercepted 25 illegal immigrants, more than half of them children, on the island of Samos, in the southeast of the Aegean Sea, a merchant navy spokesperson said.Three women and 14 children aged between five and 12 were among the immigrants, who had arrived by boat from the nearby Turkish coast and claimed to be Iraqi nationals.* SPY – Russian police in Moscow re-arrested a former intelligence officer who had been granted a conditional release the previous month from a sentence for revealing state secrets, the man’s lawyer and wife told AFP.- Nampa-AFP* PROTESTS – The end of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s landmark North American tour was marked by protests in Vancouver on Canada’s west coast, much like it started nine days earlier.* WITHDREW – Indonesia’s military withdrew hundreds more troops from Aceh province, a spokesman said, following the first phase of disarmament by separatist rebels under a pact designed to end nearly three decades of war.* TRIAL – Two former Afghan military intelligence officials will go on trial in The Hague on Monday on charges of committing human rights violations including execution and torture during the 1980s.* IMMIGRANTS – Greek port authorities have intercepted 25 illegal immigrants, more than half of them children, on the island of Samos, in the southeast of the Aegean Sea, a merchant navy spokesperson said.Three women and 14 children aged between five and 12 were among the immigrants, who had arrived by boat from the nearby Turkish coast and claimed to be Iraqi nationals.* SPY – Russian police in Moscow re-arrested a former intelligence officer who had been granted a conditional release the previous month from a sentence for revealing state secrets, the man’s lawyer and wife told AFP. – Nampa-AFP