Monthly Archive: August 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:15) At least 800 Shiite Iraqi’s died today during a stampede on a bridge over the Tigris River. The crowds were traveling to a religious ceremony in Northern Baghdad when people...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:38) Rescue teams are beginning to deploy along the gulf coast in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Floodwater is still rising in New Orleans, and the death count is expected to...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:22) Tony Blair faces increased criticism today after a high level letter leaked to the media revealed that part of his own government warned him more than a year ago that...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:08) Seventeen people, fourteen of them children, died in a Paris fire in an apartment complex housing African immigrant families. The fire raises criticism of the lack of low-income housing in...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) Pakistan’s local elections have been racked in violence. At least ten people have been killed in the second phase of Pakistan’s council elections. Elections are crucial to President Pervez Musharraf...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:27) The UK revealed the criteria that make people eligible for deportation.Helen Kelly reports from London. The controversial La Parota Hydroelectric Dam Project was approved in San Marcos, Mexico. Outside voting...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:12) The evacuation of all 21 settlements in Gaza and 4 in the West Bank is complete. Israel’s Army Chief, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said bulldozing Of the settlements will take...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:15) President Bush left Crawford to speak at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Salt Lake City. While he defended the war in Iraq, protestors outside questioned his plans. Troy...

Download MP3 Headlines Two rockets were fired at 2 US warships docked in Jordan’s Red Sea Aqaba port. The rockets missed, instead hitting a warehouse, a hospital and the Israeli port of Eliat, killing...

Download MP3 Headlines Russia and China began joint military exercises, a move that concerns the United States, and the Asian peninsula. Severine Bardon reports from Beijing. London’s top police officer attempted to stop an...