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April 09, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Japanese Protest Troops in Iraq Today, hundreds are protesting in Japan over the refusal of the Prime Minister to pull troops out of Iraq even after the kidnapping of three Japanese...

April 08, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Retirement Funds Decreased in Private Sector? Congress is poised to ease funding requirements for most of the country’s private retirement funds, despite record deficits in many of corporate America’s pension plans....

April 07, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines 9/11 “Plotter” Released from German Jail A German court in Hamburg has released from prison the only person in the world ever convicted of involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks....

April 06, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Immigrants here in the United States must now wait as long as 18-months for residency renewals. Documents allowing immigrants brief visits outside the country currently take an estimated seven months for...

April 05, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines President George W. Bush is sticking with the party denial that he or anyone in his administration knew about the possibility that Al-Queda cells were planning to hijack planes and crash...

April 02, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Some South Africans are finally receiving the long-time promised anti-retroviral drugs. Na’eem Jinah reports from Johannesburg. Public radio and television host Tavis Smiley intended to give his corporate underwriter a chance...

April 01, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines A leading Colombian human rights group reported this morning that the country’s war displaced fewer civilians from their homes last year but that conditions for the nation’s 3 million internal refugees...

March 31, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines 5 Killed in Iraq Violence Four people were killed and dragged through the streets of the Iraqi city of Fallujah today. Three of them were Americans. The four worked as contractors...

March 30, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines White House officials announced today that National Security Director Condoleeza Rice will publicly testify in front of the September 11th Commission. Rice has been highly criticized for arguing that the quality...

March 29, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines U.S. soldiers shut down a newspaper in Baghdad, justifying the action as a much-needed part of creating a free Iraq. Reporting from Baghdad, Aaron Glantz has more. A United Nations report,...