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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.
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
President Bush and British Prime Minster Blair stand together at the White House, backing Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s unilateral plan for Gaza and the West Bank and endorsing a United Nations proposal for a provisional government for Iraq. U.S. occupation in Iraq slay at least 20 Iraqis in the besieged city of Fallujah and in … Continued
Iraqi resistance fighters kill an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad as Iran undertakes a mission to negotiate a settlement between occupation authorities and a radical Shiite cleric in the southern city of Najaf.. U.S. officials are still trying to end the stand off in the beseiged city of Fallujah but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs … Continued
Pentagon officials say they’re extending the tour of duty for some 21 thousand U.S. soldiers who have served a year in Iraq and were set to leave U.S. warplanes strafe Fallujah as the nominal cease fire there threatens to disintegrate completely.. in southern Iraq, mediation may avert a U.S. assault on the holy city of … Continued
