Category: 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:57) All Women Paramilitaries, All Women Protests in Nigeria The Nigerian government will create an all-women paramilitary group to confront the mostly all-women protests against oil companies in the Niger Delta....

Download MP3 Headlines The chair of the Oil for Food Inquiry Committee, Paul Volcker, said that US Congressmen misused their subpoena power when they demanded that a former investigator turn over documents. A lawyer,...

Download MP3 Headlines WHO Follows Polio Outbreak in Indonesia The World Health Organization is investigating a recent outbreak of polio in Indonesia that has now infected four children. From Jakarta, Meggy Margiyono reports. Elections...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:35) Suicide Bombing in Northern Iraq A suicide bomber hit a police station in the Kurdish city of Irbil in northern Iraq.  It is the largest explosion in the normally peaceful town...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:10) Brits Sue Blair Over Soldiers’ Deaths The widow of a British soldier killed yesterday in Iraq has just publicly blamed Tony Blair for her husband’s death. And today, relatives of...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:04) Italians Challenge Pentagon Report The Italian government is contradicting a Pentagon report that absolves a US soldier of any wrong doing in the killing of an Italian intelligence officer in...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) Iraq car bomb At least 31 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a wave of car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi Security forces in and around Baghdad....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:12) The Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to sell to the state of Israel 100 of the notorious “bunker buster” weapons that use depleted uranium. Eun-young Chough reports from...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:45) GOP Caves in on Ethics Rules Republican leaders offered today to rollback new ethics rules introduced earlier this year. Party members are expected to act on the move as early...

Download MP3 Headlines Democratic and Republican Senators are attempting to resolve a political deadlock that threatens to promote more conservative judges and shut down the government.  Kelly Giddens has more from Capitol Hill. More violent...