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Category: newscast

July 11, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) At the FBI Academy in northern Virginia, President Bush expressed his grief for the British people who experienced several bombings on their transportation system which injured hundreds and killed more...

July 08, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:18) A federal appeals court ruled that the ban on partial birth abortions is unconstitutional. The ban includes an exception to save the life of the mother, but the 8th Circuit...

July 07, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:05) Nearly simultaneous explosion in London’s public transit system erupted just after rush hour this morning. Esther Armah has more from London. Egypt has confirmed the assassination of its Ambassador to...

July 06, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines(5:02) Chile’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet continues to face serious legal problems. The courts lifted the former dictator’s immunity on yet another case of human rights crimes, Jorge Garretón has more...

July 05, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Thai officials say thousands of teachers and residents are fleeing the country’s far south because of almost daily violence. Since last January, more than 700 people have been killed indiscriminately in...

July 01, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Mexico’s President Vicente Fox broke his silence over newspaper workers who are trapped in their offices in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Fox received pressure from international human rights groups to intervene in the blockade...

June 30, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:53) In Gaza, Israeli police raided buildings that Israeli activists have been occupying to protest the Gaza evacuation plan.  The protestors handcuffed themselves to each other and to furniture to resist orders...

June 29, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:43) A day of protest against the Israeli withdraw of Gaza resulted in arrests and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli’s. Manar Jibreen has more from Bethlehem. An international delegation has arrived...

June 28, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines  (5:02) The Pakistani Supreme Court will reopen the rape case of Mukhtar Mai, the woman from the southern Punjab region of Pakistan who was allegedly gang raped. The court overturned a lower...

June 27, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:50) In numerous supreme court rulings today, one decision ruled that an appeals court should not have re-opened a death penalty case for a Tennessee man. The majority ruling said the...