Monthly Archive: March 2005

March 17, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:36) Oil Hits New High Oil prices scraped a new ceiling of $57 dollars a barrel on the New York trading floor today as forecasters predicted that oil demand would be...

March 16, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:59) US HOUSE HANDILY APPROVES ANOTHER 81.4 BIL FOR WARS The US House overwhelmingly approved an $81.4 billion emergency-spending package for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan today that if...

March 15, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines UN Investigation into Hariri Assassination Ends A UN fact finding team has finished its investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime minister Rafik Hariri. The team will report its findings...

March 14, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines 100’s of Thousand of Lebanese Rally in Beruit Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets today in a continuation of the two campaigns seeking to oust or keep the...

March 11, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:50) Allies Refuse to Count Civilian Dead in Iraq Public health experts in six countries castigated the British and U.S. governments for failing to investigate civilian deaths during the invasion and...

March 10, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:05) 800-Thousand Workers Demonstrate in France French labor unions say that 800-thousand workers demonstrated around the country in a day of action.  Tony Cross report from Paris. Guatemalans Protesting CAFTA, Congress Delays...

March 09, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines 41 Bodies Discovered in Iraq At least three Iraqi civilians died this morning when a suicide bomber detonated a garbage truck rigged with explosives in central Baghdad. David Enders reports from...

March 08, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Kosovar Prime Minister Indicted for War Crimes Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian Prime Minister was indicted for war crimes today.Kata Mester has this report from United Nations headquarters in Pristina,Kosovo. Senate Faces Abortion...

March 07, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Rally Against Social Security Privatization Hundreds rallied in D.C. today to criticize the Bush administration’s drive to privatize Social Security and offer other solutions. Ellen Ratner reports from D.C. Egyptian Elections...

March 04, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:11) Strikes Continue in Peru Strikes continue in Peru. Victor Loza, President of the Medical Federation of Peru is set to begin negotiations with the Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti tonight....