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Download MP3 Headlines The Iranian Defense Minister said his nation would consider a pre-emptive strike to protect their nuclear facilities. Talking in Farsi through an Arabic translator with Al-Jazeera, Minister Ali Shamkhani said some...

Download MP3 Headlines Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr signaled today that he would dissolve his Mehdi militia and agreed to leave the sacred Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. In a letter delivered to delegates at...

Download MP3 Headlines Calling the policy a backdoor draft, lawyers for an unnamed California Army Reservist is suing the government’s so called “stop loss” plan. The decorated combat veteran referred to as “John Doe”...

Download MP3 Headlines Around 15-hundred Palestinian political prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike in four Israeli jails yesterday. The prisoners say they are subject to unnecessary strip searches, want more access to family visits...

Download MP3 Headlines This morning, the US military suspended its offensive against forces loyal to Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr in the city of Najaf. The move brought a temporary halt to fighting that has...

Download MP3 Headlines The California Supreme Court has ruled that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom exceeded his authority when he ordered the City to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kellia Ramares reports from...

Download MP3 Headlines Middle East Update A bomb exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints today on a busy transit route outside Jerusalem in the first such attack in six months. Two Palestinians were killed...

Download MP3 Headlines A federal judge is holding a Time Magazine reporter in contempt of court for refusing to give testimony in the investigation of which federal official named a CIA operative. The judge...

Download MP3 Headlines The Baghdad office of the Arab world’s primary news service Al-Jazeera was shut down for 30 days by the U.S. installed Iraqi government. Iraq’s Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said the government...

Download MP3 Headlines Some of the fiercest fighting broke out in Iraq today. Dave Enders files this report from Baghdad.   Journalists were finally allowed to attend tribunals being held at the U.S. naval...