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Today's lead stories:
Iraqi PM addresses Congress
Rome Reacts to Italian Hostages’ Alleged Death
Democrats Push more $ for Border Security
African Leaders Say UN Needs to be Overhauled
US Foreign Aid Criticized Abroad
"Musical Rooms" Put SF Tenants on the Streets
FSRN Headlines
Philly Civil Servants Stop City Hall
Hundreds of Philadelphia civil servants overran city hall
today and shut down the council meeting demanding a fair union
contract. Danta Toza files this report from the Philadelphia
City Hall.
More Killings in Gaza
Two Israeli soldiers and one officer have been killed and
a fourth critically wounded by Palestinian resistance fighters
in the occupied Gaza Strip. From Gaza, Laila el-Haddad has
the story.
FL SC Knocks Down New Right of Governor
Today, the Florida state Supreme Court knocked down a law
rushed through the legislature that gave the governor the
right to decide whether a woman should be removed from a feedling
tube. WMNF’s Mitch Perry reports from Tampa.
CA Gov Exercises Veto
California’s governor has turned down over 2-dozen offerings
from the Legislature, including a measure that would have
allowed undocumented immigrants to legally obtain drivers'
licenses. More from Kellia Ramares in Oakland.
MD Gov to Slash State Health Budget
In Maryland, the governor says he will cut 480-billion dollars
from the system that supports the state’s poorest and
neediest. Emily Freifield reports.
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Iraqi PM addresses Congress (4:12)
Today the brother of the British hostage, Ken Bigley, accused
the U.S. of sabotaging his brother's release after the interim
Iraqi Government shied away from an earlier announcement that
it would release one female Iraqi prisoner. Bigley’s
brother said the decision was because of pressure from the
US. And as Iraqi deaths grow exponentially, today the unelected
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a joint session of the
US Congress that they are succeeding in Iraq. Mitch Jeserich
reports from Washington D.C.
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Rome Reacts to Italian Hostages’ Alleged Death
(2:23)
Yesterday night an announcement appeared on a website that
two Italian hostages from the humanitarian organization Bridge
To Baghdad were killed in Iraq. Today another announcement
signed by a group calling itself the Ansar al-Zawahiri, said
a video showing the decapitation would be posted to the internet
soon. The Italian government today said it could not confirm
the reports. FSRN’s Manuela Aldabe reports from Rome.
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Democrats Push more $ for Border Security
(2:13)
Today Democratic lawmakers announced a new bill that asks
Congress to spend an additional 1 billion dollars to double
border patrol and border security technology primarily for
the Mexico-US border. Dolores M. Bernal reports from Capitol
Hill.
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African Leaders Say UN Needs to be Overhauled
(2:13)
Lead by African head's of state, and echoed strongly by
Germany, countries speaking at today's session of the UN Security
Council called for institutional reform of the United Nations.
Leigh Ann Caldwell reports from the United Nations in Manhattan.
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US Foreign Aid Criticized Abroad (3:58)
Despite the fact that the US is one of the richest nations
in the world, the share of its wealth that goes as aid to
foreign countries is the lowest among industrialized nations.
Recently the Bush administration announced an 11 percent increase
in foreign aid for the fiscal year of 2005. Despite this endeavor,
US approach to foreign aid is criticized by many. Anastasia
Gnezditskaia has the story.
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"Musical Rooms" Put SF Tenants on the Streets
(3:52)
In the Tenderloin, the marginalized homeless district near
downtown San Francisco, many hotels are in the practice of
continually kicking out tenants on their 28th day of residency
only to let them back in for another 28-day stay. The practice
is called musical rooms. KPFA’s Lindsay Benedict has
the story.
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