Monthly Archive: April 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Today, D.C. residents held a parade to mark the anniversary of the end of slavery in the district. Gladys L. Brooks from the DC-Coop reports. Spain’s new socialist Prime Minister promises...

Download MP3 Headlines South Africans Go to the Polls South Africa’s polling stations have closed for the day and the Independent Electoral Commission says there was a high voter turn out for the country’s...

Download MP3 Headlines Today the French foreign ministry confirmed that a French journalist has been taken hostage in Iraq. To date, 40 people from 12 nations are being held hostage there. A spokesperson for...

Download MP3 Headlines Reportedly, 12 hostages in Iraq have been released, seven of them Chinese. So far, more than 30 people from a variety of countries have been taken hostage in Iraq. In this...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...