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Category: newscast

June 06, 2003

Download MP3 Sierra Leone Indictment – A Step Towards Peace? This Wednesday, the Special Court for Sierra Leone unsealed an indictment  against Liberian President Charles Taylor, while he was attending a peace conference in Ghana....

June 05, 2003

Download MP3 Iraq: Instability and Demonstrations Today, Chief UN arms Inspector, Hans Blix released a report that states that while UN inspectors were in Iraq, they did not discover evidence of the continuation or...

June 04, 2003

Download MP3 Bush Brokering Peace in Mid East? In the  first time since he became President of the US, George W. Bush held a joint meeting between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. Thousands of Israeli border...

June 03, 2003

Download MP3 Kidnapping of Iraqi Girls? Thousands of Iraqi Muslims marched through the streets of Baghdad today, demanding that U.S. troops withdraw from the country. One banner from the crowd read in English: “Saddam...

June 02, 2003

Download MP3 Media Consolidation Regulations Weakened The Federal Communications Commission today approved sweeping new rules by three votes to two that will weaken media consolidation rules, despite fears about reducing the diversity of viewpoints...

May 30, 2003

Download MP3 Israeli Palestinian Talks  (3:28) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas yesterday for a three hour meeting, ahead of a regional summit with President Bush next week. Inside...

May 29, 2003

Download MP3 Lima Strikers Under Siege  (3:39) The Peruvian capital of Lima is under a state of emergency, declared yesterday by President Alejandro Toledo in response to growing strikes by the cities teachers who in...

May 28, 2003

Download MP3 Bush Administration Targets Iran   (3:54) After Iran’s announcements yesterday that they had arrested certain al-Qaeda suspects, Washington hit back immediately saying Tehran’s actions were “insufficient” to curb terrorism. This as it now...

May 27, 2003

Download MP3 Supreme Court on Secret Deportation Hearings  (2:15) The Supreme Court Today refused to hear an appeal brought by groups challenging secret deportation hearings, which began after Sept 11th, 2001.  Shortly after the 9-11 attacks,...

May 23, 2003

Download MP3 Protests Demand End to Aceh Assault Reports out of the Indonesian held province of Aceh today tell a worsening tale of humanitarian disaster. It is reported that upwards of 23,000 civilians have...