Monthly Archive: May 2007

May 31, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) BUSH TALKS CLIMATE CHANGE President Bush called on 15 world powers today to agree on a program to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The speech comes just days ahead of the...

May 30, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) THAI COURT DISBANDS FORMER RULING PARTY Thailand’s Constitutional Court today ruled to disband the Thai Rak Thai party and bar more than 100 of its members from participating in electoral...

May 29, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(5:07) LAPD’S CHIEF BRATTON ON MAY DAY MELEE Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton today presented his report on the May 1st police riot at MacArthur Park to the LA Police Commission....

May 25, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(6:00) INFLUENTIAL IRAQ CLERIC COMES OUT OF HIDING Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr re-appeared in public during Friday prayers after months in hiding. Al Sadr is well known for his opposition...

May 24, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) BLAST IN RUSSIAN MINE KILLS 38 A methane blast in a Siberian coal mine has killed 38 Russian miners. Today’s explosion comes just two months after 110 miners died in...

May 23, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) DEMS CAPITULATE TO WHITE HOUSE ON WITHDRAWAL TIMELINE The Democratic leadership in Congress has capitulated to the White House demand for a war funding bill without a timetable for withdrawal...

May 22, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(7:02) FIGHTING RAGES ON IN LEBANON Lebanon is reeling from a third day of fighting between Lebanese Army forces and a Sunni Islamist group in a Palestinian camp in the country’s north....

May 21, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) OUTSPOKEN MEMBER OF AFGHAN PARLIMENT SUSPENDED An outspoken member of Afghanistan’s parliament has been suspended until the end of her term in office. The lower house of parliament voted today...

May 18, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) EXPLOSION AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN INDIA A bomb at one of India’s largest mosques killed at least 11 people today and wounded dozens more. The blast came as thousands of...