Tagged: 2005

August 26, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:08) Seventeen people, fourteen of them children, died in a Paris fire in an apartment complex housing African immigrant families. The fire raises criticism of the lack of low-income housing in...

August 25, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) Pakistan’s local elections have been racked in violence. At least ten people have been killed in the second phase of Pakistan’s council elections. Elections are crucial to President Pervez Musharraf...

August 24, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:27) The UK revealed the criteria that make people eligible for deportation.Helen Kelly reports from London. The controversial La Parota Hydroelectric Dam Project was approved in San Marcos, Mexico. Outside voting...

August 23, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:12) The evacuation of all 21 settlements in Gaza and 4 in the West Bank is complete. Israel’s Army Chief, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said bulldozing Of the settlements will take...

August 22, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (5:15) President Bush left Crawford to speak at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Salt Lake City. While he defended the war in Iraq, protestors outside questioned his plans. Troy...

August 19, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Two rockets were fired at 2 US warships docked in Jordan’s Red Sea Aqaba port. The rockets missed, instead hitting a warehouse, a hospital and the Israeli port of Eliat, killing...

August 18, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Russia and China began joint military exercises, a move that concerns the United States, and the Asian peninsula. Severine Bardon reports from Beijing. London’s top police officer attempted to stop an...

August 17, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines (6:27) Leaked documents have shed new light on how Brazilian immigrant Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by plain clothes officers, one day after the failed London bombings in July....

August 16, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines The first forced evacuations amidst escalating tensions between Israeli police and settlers have begun as the deadline of midnight tonight to clear Gaza settlements approaches. Meanwhile, Israeli officials closed off Palestinian...

August 15, 2005

Download MP3 Headlines Last night at midnight was the deadline for settlers to leave all camps in Gaza and four in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers began handing out eviction notices today to the...