Monthly Archive: June 2005

June 30, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:53) In Gaza, Israeli police raided buildings that Israeli activists have been occupying to protest the Gaza evacuation plan.  The protestors handcuffed themselves to each other and to furniture to resist orders...

June 29, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:43) A day of protest against the Israeli withdraw of Gaza resulted in arrests and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli’s. Manar Jibreen has more from Bethlehem. An international delegation has arrived...

June 28, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines  (5:02) The Pakistani Supreme Court will reopen the rape case of Mukhtar Mai, the woman from the southern Punjab region of Pakistan who was allegedly gang raped. The court overturned a lower...

June 27, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:50) In numerous supreme court rulings today, one decision ruled that an appeals court should not have re-opened a death penalty case for a Tennessee man. The majority ruling said the...

June 24, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:53) Voter turnout in Irans run-off election is high, but the outcome is too close to call. Saeedah Jamshidi reports from Iran. Sri Lanka’s government on Friday signed a controversial tsunami...

June 23, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:24) The Supreme Court released a decision today that would allow cities to seize private property for business development.  Sue Kim reports from DC. Edgar Ray Killan was sentenced to 60 years...

June 22, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:14) An international conference on Iraq at the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels has given its support to the current government, after calling for tighter borders to stop foreign fighters going...

June 21, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:59) A guilty verdict is issued in the trial of former Ku Klux Klan member, Edgar Ray Killan. The jury convicted Killan of manslaughter, which are lesser charges, after less than...

June 20, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Opposition leader and anti-Syrian Saad al-Hariri claimed victory Monday in Lebanon’s elections, beating pro-Syrian Christian former minister Suleiman Franjieh. The anti-Syrian party also won parliament, which breaks Syria’s hold over the...

June 17, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:49) There were violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan today, after demonstrators stormed and occupied the government headquarters there. 1000 police took back the building, using teargas and clubs to dislodge the demonstrators,...