May 17, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) UN PREPARES FOR OPERATION IN DARFUR The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a measure to begin preparing for a UN-led peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region. Sudan signed...
Monthly Archive: May 2006
May 15, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (6:30) CLIMATE CHANGE CAN CAUSE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DEATHS “182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by the end of the...
May 12, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:41) GAS PIPELINE EXPLODES IN NIGERIA At least hundred and fifty people have died in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos. The explosion occurred on Friday...
May 11, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (4:57) A DAY OF BLOCKADES IN MEXICO CITY University students blockaded roads and highways in various parts of Mexico City today, calling for the release of all of those arrested last...
May 10, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:50) FIRST DAY OF COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE ABUSES IN NEPAL Two weeks after Nepal’s king gave up some power in the face of countrywide protests, a high-level government commission today began...
May 09, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (4:58) ATENCO PRISONERS CHARGED WITH ORGANIZED CRIME The Attorney General’s office of Mexico state has filed charges against townspeople arrested in last week’s raid of San Salvador Atenco. Some 190 people...
May 08, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:05) PHILIPPINE LEGISLATORS FREE TO GO HOME Five leftist lawmakers accused of involvement in a coup plot against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in February today walked out of Congress where...
May 05, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (6:01) CIA DIRECTOR RESIGNS The Shake-up continues in the Bush Administration. President Bush announced today that he accepted the resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss. Bush thanked Goss and described his...
May 04, 2006
Download MP3 Headlines (5:25) RED ALERT IN MEXICO Street blockades have cropped up around Mexico City today, after a battle yesterday between townspeople and police near the Mexican capital left one 14 year-old dead....
