Monthly Archive: April 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) VIRGINIA TECH CAMPUS SHOOTING The campus of Virgina Tech has been shut down in the wake of a shooting spree that killed at least 31 people today. The gunman is...

Download MP3 Headlines (4:50) HOUSTON KICKS OFF NATIONAL WEEKEND OF CLIMATE ACTIONS The nation’s largest protest focused on global warming kicked off today. Demonstrators in Houston targeted investment banks funding new coal-fired power plants....

Download MP3 Headlines (4:50) NEGROPONTE VISITS SUDAN US Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte arrived in Khartoum today to meet with Sudanese officials over the crisis in the country’s western Darfur region. The visit...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:15) DOUBLE BOMBING IN ALGIERS A double bombing today in the Algerian capital of Algiers has killed at least 23 people and wounded over 150. A suicide bomber blew himself up...

Download MP3 Headlines SUBPOENA The House Judiciary Committee today issued a subpoena for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. This is first high ranking subpoena issued during the Bush Presidency. In a written statement, the Committee...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:20) IRAN BEGINS INDUSTRIAL SCALE NUCLEAR FUEL PRODUCTION Iran announced today that it has started to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. The government of the oil-rich nation claims it...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:20) POSSIBLE WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA European Union officials are looking into allegations that Ethiopian and Somali government forces committed war crimes during a recent 4-day siege on Mogadishu. The Associated...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) ECUADOR EMERGING FROM POLITICAL CRISIS Ecuador’s constitutional court has upheld a decision by the country’s electoral tribunal to fire 57 members of the national assembly for dragging their feet on...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:00) TENUOUS CEASEFIRE FOLLOWS BLOODBATH IN MOGADISHU Medical crews have begun to clear corpses from the streets of the Somali captial of Mogadishu today. Ethiopian and Somali government soldiers, as well as...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) UKRAINE ON VERGE OF MAJOR POLITICAL CRISIS A major political standoff in the Ukraine may soon take on crisis proportions. The pro-Western faction of president Viktor Yushchenko is at loggerheads...