Monthly Archive: May 2007

May 17, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) ISRAEL ATTACKS GAZA The Israeli military struck numerous sights in Gaza today after it vowed a severe response to rocket attacks on its soil. The attacks came as efforts to...

May 16, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (6:20) Wolfowitz Under Fire The Bush administration and World Bank directors are negotiating President Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the world’s biggest aid agency, said two bank officials. Eli Whitney Debevoise II,...

May 15, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(4:56) JERRY FALWELL DEAD AT 73 Reverend Jerry Falwell, the Baptist minister who used television to bring his message to millions and then founded the Moral Majority to help politically mobilize the...

May 14, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines GAZA: VIOLENCE CONTINUES, INTERIOR MINISTER RESIGNS The Palestinian Authority has mobilized all its forces to quell factional violence in the Gaza Strip. Since Friday, the latest surge in fighting between Fatah...

May 11, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS STRONGER THAN EXPECTED The House of Representatives passed a bill last night to require the president to give progress reports on benchmarks he recommended in January...

May 10, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:20) EAST TIMOR ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT Preliminary results are in from the 2nd round of voting in East Timor, showing Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta as the...

May 09, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(5:08) RAIDS ACROSS GERMANY AHEAD OF G8 SUMMIT Nearly 900 police targeted left-wing activist organizations across Germany today, in what authorities say was an operation to prevent a so-called terrorist plot at...

May 08, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines(5:10) NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT SWORN IN A power sharing government resumed today in Northern Ireland for the first time in 5 years. Maeve Conran reports. INCREASED CALLS FOR WOLFOWITZ TO RESIGN European...

May 07, 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) POLITICAL TENSION EASES IN UKRAINE Ukraine’s President and Prime Minister ended their month-long showdown over constitutional issues today with a special session of that country’s parliament. Elise Hugus has more....