Category: 2005

November 07, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:55) RIOTS STILL RAGE IN PARIS France’s government presented a new plan for neglected low-income areas today after 11 nights of urban unrest. Tony Cross reports from Paris. Chirac, who’s been...

November 04, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:51) RIOTS SPREAD BEYOND PARIS Urban violence in France spread beyond the Paris region last night, with cars being set ablaze in several parts of the country. Tony Cross reports from...

November 03, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS The fourth Summit of the Americas will open tomorrow in Mar del Plata, Argentina. All 34 heads of state from the Americas will attend the summit…except Fidel...

November 02, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:22) RIOTS STILL RAGE IN PARIS Urban violence spread last night to several towns in the outskirts of Paris. But the situation was calmer in the neighborhood where the rioting started...

November 01, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:13) UNREST IN ZANZIBAR Results are now in for Zanzibar’s hotly-contested election. Voters in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island went to the polls on Sunday amidst tensions that later erupted into three days...

October 31, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:17) UN RESOLUTION ON SYRIA Today the United Nations Security Council adopted a unanimous resolution that warns Syria of serious consequences if it fails to cooperate with UN investigators probing the...

October 28, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines TEHRAN RALLY Iran’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended a massive demonstration in Tehran today. The anti-Israel march has become an annual event in Tehran to mark the final Friday of Ramadan....

October 27, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) FOOD-FOR-OIL REPORT Over 2000 companies have been implicated in wrongdoing during the Food for oil program. This, according to a report presented today at the United Nations. The program allowed...

October 26, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:57) ACQUITTALS IN GUJARAT RIOTS A special court established to expedite the cases of the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat has acquitted over 100 murder suspects...

October 25, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:26) UNSC ON HARIRI REPORT The United Nations Security Council met today to discuss the now-famous report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Syria’s ambassador to the...