The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – April 28, 2004

As U.S. helicopter gunships pound three districts in Fallujah day and night, President Bush insists that most of the city is returning to normal U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns that U.S. military action in Fallujah could bolster resistance and make it harder to end the U.S. occupation Supreme Court justices express concern that Americans captured … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – April 26, 2004

Fierce fighting in Fallujah, although the nominal ceasefire remains in effect. Members of Fallujah’s town council ask for United Nations mediation between resistance fighters and U.S. troops. Dozens of former top ranking British diplomats offer a blistering critique of conduct of the war in Iraq and say Prime Minister Blair should use his influence to … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – April 25, 2004

A period of shaky clam continues tonight in the Iraq cities of Fallujah and Najaf. Meanwhile, the United Nations envoy to Iraq is warning the U.S. against sending American troops into those cities. More than one million people march in the nation’s capitol in support of women’s reproductive rights. Protests against the International Monetary Fund … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – April 22, 2004

An advisory panel unanimously recommends that California ban the use of 15-thousand touch-screen voting machines made by Deebold from the November election. The panel says the Texas company’s machines malfunctioned in the state’s primary election in March. US. Marines warn Iraqi resistance fighters in the city of Fallujah that they just have a few days … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – April 21, 2004

Dozens are dead-including 16 children, in a series of explosions outside of police stations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A suicide car bomb blast at Saudi National police headquarters is described as a quantum leap by insurgents who have gone from attacking U.S. targets to Saudi security forces. Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu … Continued


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