News Headlines - 09 June 2015

▽HSBC brand to disappear from UK's high streets as bank renames branches - Telegraph

The bank, whose UK retail bank employs 26,000 staff and has millions of customers, plans to change the name of its branch network once it has been legally separated from the financial giant's global operations.

▽Japan's Mitsui to lead $3 bln property project in London | Reuters

Japanese developer Mitsui Fudosan Co said on Friday it would lead a 400 billion yen ($3.21 billion) residential and commercial project in London, its largest overseas investment as it seeks new opportunities outside Japan... The British Broadcasting Corp sold the land to Mitsui Fudosan and its partners and will lease properties in the project once it is completed, Mitsui Fudosan said.

▽Donald Rumsfeld: George W. Bush Was Wrong About Iraq - Bloomberg Politics

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the staunchest defenders of the Iraq war, said in an interview with the Times of London that his boss, former President George W. Bush, was wrong to try to create democracy onto Iraq.

▽US court invalidates 'born in Jerusalem' passport law - Al Jazeera English

A divided US Supreme Court has struck down a law that would allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports, saying it unlawfully encroached on the president's powers to set foreign policy.

▽Sweden's foreign minister unrepentant over Saudi flogging row | The Guardian

Sweden’s foreign minister has said she stands by her denunciation of a Saudi blogger’s flogging as medieval, three months after her criticism of the Gulf kingdom’s human rights record ignited a diplomatic crisis and infuriated business leaders fearful for trade losses.