Category: 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (4:31) GM LAYOFFS General Motors announced today that the company will cut 30,000 manufacturing jobs. At least ten production plants and service facilities in the U.S. and Canada have been slated...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:20) South Koreans Protest APEC Several thousand South Koreans, many of them rice farmers, demonstrated at the two-day summit of the Asia-Pacifica Economic Cooperation in Busan. The summit is an attempt...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:56) STRANDED PASSENGERS CROSS LoC IN KASHIMIR The line of control in Kashmir opened briefly today to permit 24 people to cross over. Shahnawaz Khan has more. WEST BANK ASSASSINATIONS As...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:06) ENERGY TASK FORCE A White House document obtained by the Washington Post shows that executives from big oil companies met with the Vice President’s energy task force in 2001 —...

Download MP3 Headlines SECRET DETAINEES IN IRAQ Some 170 malnourished detainees have been discovered in a building administered by Iraq’s Interior Ministry. Iraqi officials have said some of the detainees showed physical signs of...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:45) TENSE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS Diplomatic relations between Mexico and Venezuela are on the rocks after an ongoing verbal exchange between their heads of state. Vladimir Flores reports from Mexico. The verbal...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED IN NAMIBIA A mass grave, thought to date back to the Apartheid era, has been uncovered in Namibia. Na’eem Jeenah reports from Johannesburg. COMMEMORATION OF ARAFAT’S DEATH...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:28) BALI BOMBER Indonesian police have confirmed that South-East Asia’s most wanted terrorist suspect was killed an a raid yesterday. Meggy Margiyono sends this report from Jakarta. Although results are not...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:46) SADDAM DEFENSE TEAM BOYCOTTS TRIAL A secret burial was held today for the Iraqi trial lawyer who was gunned down yesterday in Baghdad. Adil al-Zubeidi is the second defense attorney...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:38) IRAQI LAWYER AMBUSHED Two lawyers for co-defendants in the Saddam Hussein trial were ambushed by gunmen today in Baghdad. One attorney was killed while the other was wounded. This is...