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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.
U.S. warplanes and artillery batter the city of Fallujah, as a fragile cease fire comes to an end The top U.N. envoy says that despite the fighting in Iraq, it’s possible to set up an interim government by the end of May – a month before the U.S. occupation authority hands over nominal power Explosions … Continued
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
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
Two U.S. soldiers are dead and five others are injured in attack on two Iraqi oil facilities. About a hundred people gather in San Francisco for roundtable discussions on how youth can empower themselves by working with the media. A couple of hundred people come together outside the Sony Metreon Theater to commemorate the death … Continued
Radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr threatens suicide bombings if U.S. troops strike the Holy City of Najaf in Iraq.. In fighting today another U.S. soldier is killed as is a member of the Bulgarian armed services.. Meanwhile the Bush Administration and the Congress contemplate spending tens of billions more dollars on the Iraq war and … Continued
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
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
The Pentagon admits foreign countries are not likely to commit any more troops to the so-called US-led coalition in Iraq even if the United Nations passes a new Iraqi resolution. The admission comes in a somewhat contentious hearing in the Senate and as two nations pull their forces out of Iraq. Iraqi insurgents attack the … Continued
US troops out of Iraq-drawing a rebuke from President Bush. . .Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr tells his supporters to stop attacking Spanish troops. Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal calls for an Arab Moslem alliance to defeat the U.S. and Israel. . . Israeli officials are reportedly considering attacking Hamas headquarters in Syria if the … Continued
The US Administration in Iraq says Iraqi security forces won’t be ready to protect the country when the official handover of power takes place on June 30th. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets of Gaza to protest Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Azia Rantisi. Nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu is scheduled to … Continued
