March 06, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) BULLDOZING RESUMES IN NEW ORLEANS, LA Today the Army Corps of Engineers resumed demolition of 120 severely damaged homes in New Orleans, the vast majority in the city’s lower 9th...
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March 03, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:04) STATE OF EMERGENCY LIFTED IN PHILIPPINES Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today lifted a week-long state of emergency after security officials assured her that the threat against her government has...
March 02, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) PATRIOT ACT RE-AUTHORIZATION The Senate has virtually assured the re-authorization of the USA Patriot Act. The bill has been locked in Senate debate since mid-December. Democratic Senator Russel Feingold from...
March 01, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (6:09) KOSOVO’S PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS Kosovo’s Prime Minister resigned today – one week after the first round of talks were completed in Vienna to determine the political and legal status of...
February 28, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:17) PATRIOT ACT VOTE The Senate will vote on final passage of the re-authorization of the USA patriot Act tomorrow morning. If it passes, the bill will go to the President...
February 27, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:42) STATE OF EMERGENCY CONTINUES IN THE PHILIPPINES Philippine police today filed rebellion charges against 16 leftist and opposition personalities suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to oust President Gloria...
February 24, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (4:53) SHELL ORDERED TO PAY IN NIGERIA A Nigerian court has ordered Shell Petroleum to pay 1.5 billion dollars to local communities in the Niger Delta region as compensation for years...
February 23, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:03) ELECTIONS IN UGANDA Voters in Uganda went to the polls today in the country’s first multi-party elections in 25 years. The twenty-year long rule of President Yoweri Museveni is being...
February 22, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:34) CALIFORNIA EXECUTIONS IN LIMBO California prison officials have called off the scheduled execution of convicted murder and rapist, Michael Morales. The move leaves California’s execution process in limbo and will...
February 21, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:18) SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL EXTRADITED TO THE HAGUE A Bosnian Serb accused of leading a paramilitary group that killed dozens of Muslims during the Bosnian war has arrived from Argentina at...
