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The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Members of Moqatada Al Sadr’s militia begin turning in their heavy weapons in a deal intended to end the fighting in Sadr City… Elsewhere in Iraq, car bombs, beheadings and U.S. air strikes continue… Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vows to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a parliamentary vote European scientists say an unexplained … Continued
Afghan officials agree to create an independent commission to probe charges of fraud in yesterday’s first ever presidential election, after all 15 challengers to U.S. backed interim president Hamid Karzai said they’d contest the results Two car bombs in Baghdad kill at least 11 and wound 16, as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on his … Continued
All 15 candidates opposing U.S. backed interim president Hamid Karzai withdraw in the middle of today’s historic Afghan election. …they charge the government and the United Nations with fraud and incompetence…. Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s conservative alliance easily wins a fourth term despite the anger at his decision to send troops to Iraq…. Shiite … Continued
Pacifica Radio’s live coverage and analysis of the second Presidential Debates.
Suspected car bombs strike three red sea resorts in Egypt where Israelis are vacationing…. .at least 30 are feared dead in the biggest explosion at the Hilton Hotel in Taba Rockets hit the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad where foreign contractors and journalists are housed. . . . .there are no deaths or serious injuries. . … Continued
The chief U.S. weapons inspector says Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had deteriorated before last year’s U.S. invasion …President Bush had cited Iraq’s purported weapons program to justify the invasion. . . Israel presses forward with its weeklong assault on Gaza — the biggest and bloodiest during … Continued
Dozens are dead in Israel’s massive offensive in the Gaza Strip. ..arab nations ask the U.N. Security Council to intervene. .. the U.S. defends Israel’s military action U.S. military forces battle Iraqi resistance fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City and launch yet more air stakes on the rebellious city of Fallujah…in Baghdad and Mosul, car bombings … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vows to continue the invasion of the Gaza Strip, which already has killed-dozens of Palestinians… U.S. and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces say they’ve defeated Iraqi insurgents in Samarra… Forest activists turn out in Oregon to try to stop logging in the Klamath-Siskyou region… other forest activists demonstrate in British Columbia against … Continued
Israel hits Palestinian militants hard on the third bloody day of a massive Israel incursion into the Gaza Strip’s largest refugee camp. . . . The Justice for Palestine Coalition host’s a day-long human rights conference about the situation in Palestine. . . . A Southern California peace activist is launching a hunger strike to … Continued
A Day after the Presidential debate, the debate over Iraq goes on. On the campaign trail as challenger John Kerry says President Bush has no plan to end the mess
