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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.
A militant group said today it beheaded an American Muslim. It’s the second reported killing of a kidnapped American soldier in Iraq this week. The Sudan government says today it will disarm outlaw groups who drove more than a million Africans from their homes. Human rights advocates a call it ethnic cleansing. The 9/11 Commission … Continued
Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad rocket two hotel compounds used by foreigners …No fatalities there but elsewhere two more American soldiers are killed…. Three US soldiers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an Iraqi curfew violator who was shoved off a bridge and drowned. … Human rights lawyers file new appeals on behalf of … Continued
A defiant Saddam Hussein in court today to face preliminary charges ….Saddam lectures the judge, scoffs at charges of war crimes and says that President Bush is the real criminal Jordan the first Arab nation to offer to send troops to Iraq. . . .King Abdullah says Jordanian soldiers can go if the new interim … Continued
The U.S. army announces thousands more former soldiers could be ordered back to Iraq and in what officials concede could be a shock to many of them, who have been out of uniform for years… A report by the investigative arm of Congress says that, in some key areas, post war Iraq is worse off … Continued
Iraq’s interim prime minister announces that Saddam Hussein and 11 top members of his deposed government will appear before Iraqi judges this week.. Saddam is to be charged with crimes against humanity for a 1988 massacre of Kurds, the Iran-Iraq war and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait San Francisco Supervisors place an Anti-Iraq war on … Continued
In a surprise and secret ceremony, U.S. occupation authorities transfer nominal authority to the interim Iraqi Government two days early …the news is greeted with cynicism by the Iraqi population, explosions in Baghdad, fighting in Ramadi and a marine captured three months ago has been executed… The U.S. Supreme Court imposes the first limits on … Continued
With three days to go until the U.S. officially hands over power to a new Iraqi government, insurgents continue their attacks on U.S. occupation forces.. There won’t be a budget ready when the State begins a new fiscal year next week…. legislators say they’ve run out of time to finish the budget process by Thursday. … Continued
Another U.S. air raid on Fallujah as jets hit a suspected safehouse of the Islamic militant thought to be behind yesterdays coordinated attacks on Iraqi cities that killed over a hundred. …the U.S. Military today’s raid killed up to 25 insurgents, but Iraqi sources say the only victims were civilians The Republican chairman of the … Continued
A hundred dead and hundreds wounded as Iraqi insurgents launch coordinated attacks on five cities ….in Iraq’s third largest city Mosul –usually quiet -suicide bombings kill 62. ..three US soldiers are among the day’s dead.. For the first time a majority in a poll says the war on Iraq was a mistake and that its … Continued
