Monthly Archive: January 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:15) CHAVEZ GRANTED SWEEPING POWERS Venezuela’s National Assembly unanimously passed a law today that will allow President Hugo Chavez to issue laws by decree for a limited time on a wide...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) NEGROPONTE CONFIRMATION HEARING In today’s confirmation hearing for John Negroponte, the president’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, senators made it clear to the outgoing Director of National Intelligence that...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:30) HUNDREDS DEAD IN NAJAF BATTLE Shiite Iraqis are currently celebrating their holiest month of the year – but it has been marred by some of the worst violence since 2003....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:45) DEATH TOLL IN GUINEA HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT The government of the West African nation of Guinea has reportedly reached a tentative agreement with striking unionists to name a new...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:30) CURFEW IN BEIRUT Four people are dead and another 20 are wounded after clashes erupted today in Beirut between supporters and opponents of the government. Fighting started with an argument...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) SENATE COMMITTEE REJECTS PLAN TO INCREASE TROOP LEVELS The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today voted against President Bush’s policy to increase troop levels in Iraq, saying that the plan is...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:45) ISRAELI PRESIDENT CAN FACE INDICTMENT Israel’s Attorney General has stated that enough evidence exists to indict President Moshe Katsav on charges of rape and other crimes involving abuse of power....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:15) SOMALI ISLAMIST LEADER TURNS HIMSELF IN A key leader of the deposed Islamic group in Somalia turned himself in to Kenyan authorities today. Abdurahman Warsameh reports from Mogadishu. The U.S....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:30) TURKISH-ARMENIAN JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD An outspoken Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor gunned down today outside of his office in Istanbul. The editor, Hrant Dink had previously received death threats for refusing to...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:45) FIRST 100 HOURS PROGRESS REPORT Congressional Democrats are expected to complete their first one hundred hour agenda promises today. Last night, they passed the College Student Relief Act which cuts...