Category: 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) OUTSPOKEN MEMBER OF AFGHAN PARLIMENT SUSPENDED An outspoken member of Afghanistan’s parliament has been suspended until the end of her term in office. The lower house of parliament voted today...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) EXPLOSION AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN INDIA A bomb at one of India’s largest mosques killed at least 11 people today and wounded dozens more. The blast came as thousands of...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) ISRAEL ATTACKS GAZA The Israeli military struck numerous sights in Gaza today after it vowed a severe response to rocket attacks on its soil. The attacks came as efforts to...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:20) Wolfowitz Under Fire The Bush administration and World Bank directors are negotiating President Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the world’s biggest aid agency, said two bank officials. Eli Whitney Debevoise II,...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:56) JERRY FALWELL DEAD AT 73 Reverend Jerry Falwell, the Baptist minister who used television to bring his message to millions and then founded the Moral Majority to help politically mobilize the...

Download MP3 Headlines GAZA: VIOLENCE CONTINUES, INTERIOR MINISTER RESIGNS The Palestinian Authority has mobilized all its forces to quell factional violence in the Gaza Strip. Since Friday, the latest surge in fighting between Fatah...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS STRONGER THAN EXPECTED The House of Representatives passed a bill last night to require the president to give progress reports on benchmarks he recommended in January...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:20) EAST TIMOR ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT Preliminary results are in from the 2nd round of voting in East Timor, showing Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta as the...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:08) RAIDS ACROSS GERMANY AHEAD OF G8 SUMMIT Nearly 900 police targeted left-wing activist organizations across Germany today, in what authorities say was an operation to prevent a so-called terrorist plot at...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:10) NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT SWORN IN A power sharing government resumed today in Northern Ireland for the first time in 5 years. Maeve Conran reports. INCREASED CALLS FOR WOLFOWITZ TO RESIGN European...