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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...