Category: 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Opposition leader and anti-Syrian Saad al-Hariri claimed victory Monday in Lebanon’s elections, beating pro-Syrian Christian former minister Suleiman Franjieh. The anti-Syrian party also won parliament, which breaks Syria’s hold over the...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:49) There were violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan today, after demonstrators stormed and occupied the government headquarters there. 1000 police took back the building, using teargas and clubs to dislodge the demonstrators,...

Download MP3 Headlines Sick and injured workers from the site of the World Trade Center are appealing to Congress so that federal money set aside for them will remain in New York rather than...

Download MP3 Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Rights (4:10) A military lawyer appointed to represent a Guantanamo Bay detainee testified in Congress today that his client was forced to plead guilty to...

Download MP3 Headlines A suicide bomber hit an open market area in the Kurdish city of Karkuk in northern Iraq. Victims of the blast were taken to a neighboring hospital where Dr. Ali Karkuky...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal by big broadcasters and the Federal Communications Commission on media deregulation.  The decision upholds a ruling by a lower court that tossed...

Download MP3 Headlines Bhopal activists still seeking retribution from Dow Chemicals are seething over a new deal the corporate leviathan has made with the Indian government. Binu Alex has more from Ahmedebad. The government...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:57) Some US Representatives are seeking to slow down the quickly diminishing national pension fund as corporate giants cash in employee accounts to stave off the consequences of bankruptcy.  Kate Paulman reports...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) Today the streets of La Paz were relatively quiet.  Miners, laborers and other social groups are marching to Bolivia?s capitol.  Luis Gómez reports from La Paz. Military spending worldwide has exceeded 1-trillion...

Download MP3 Headlines The U.S. Senate kept its promise on judicial nominee Janice Rogers Brown and closed discussion in a 64-32 vote.  Civil rights and environmental groups oppose the presidential nominee saying she has issued...