Monthly Archive: June 2006

June 16, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:12) IRAQ A bomb blast at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killed eleven people today and injured 25 others. The attack came before the start of Friday prayers. According to media...

June 15, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (4:51) SRI LANKA A blast from a land mine killed at least 62 people in a crowded bus today in Sri Lanka. The government blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels for the...

June 13, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:05) AIR STRIKES AND INFIGHTING IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES Two Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed at least eleven Palestinians, including two children, and injured at least twenty others today. This,...

June 12, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:04) NSA TRIAL OPENS IN DETROIT The American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program went to court today in Detroit. The White House has asked...

June 09, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:28) AIR STRIKES AGAINST GAZA An Israeli missile hit a crowded Gaza beach this afternoon, killing a number of vacationing Palestinian civilians. Saed Bannoura reports. The Israeli missile dropped on the...

June 08, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:03) Critical Iraqi Posts Filled After weeks of wrangling, the Iraqi Assembly today overwhelmingly approved Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s nominees to fill the posts to head the Defense and Interior Ministries....

June 07, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (4:59) Europe Complicit in Detainee Disappearances Romania and Poland denounced a new EU report that said there is evidence the two country’s housed secret CIA jails. The report also says several...

June 06, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (5:24) Most Iraqi Deaths for a Month The Iraqi Health Ministry said that nearly 1,400 civilians in Baghdad alone died in targeted attacks in the month of May, marking the highest...

June 05, 2006

Download MP3 Headlines (4:58) ISLAMIST MILITIA TAKES MOGADISHU After weeks of urban fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, an Islamist militia now claims to control the city. Most of the warlords based in...