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...
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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...
February 20, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:33) ATTACKS IN NIGER DELTA Royal Dutch Shell has suspended half of it’s operations in the Niger Delta region. In the past 3 days, militant groups have attacked a number of...
February 17, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:23) LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES Hundreds are feared dead after a massive mudslide buried an entire village in the Philippines today. The partial collapse of a nearby mountain comes after two...
February 16, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (6:15) PREVAL DECLARED WINNER IN HAITI Early this morning, Rene Preval was declared the winner of last week’s presidential election in Haiti. He rose above the 50%-plus-one margin necessary to avoid...
February 15, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:36) GRAPHIC IMAGES FROM ABU GHRAIB BROADCAST IN AUSTRALIA Australia’s SBS television channel today broadcast graphic and disturbing footage of apparent abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers at the Abu...
February 14, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) EU DEBATES BOLKENSTEIN DIRECTIVE About 50 thousand labour unionists demonstrated outside the European parliament in Strasbourg, France, today. This as the parliament debated a revised version of the controversial Bolkestein...
February 13, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (4:53) CLOSELY-CONTESTED NOMINATION OF PRIME MINISTER IN IRAQ Ibrahim al-Jaafari has been nominated by Iraq’s ruling Shia coalition to stay on as Prime Minister in the newly-elected government. His nomination yesterday...
