TUESDAY, Oct. 16
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No audio updates will be posted now through Oct. 19, but please refer to this page for text updates you may read on your show. Also refer to the WQRI News folder on DJ Dell for links to local, national and international media that should give you plenty of material.
We are devoting time this week to ‘renovating’ the updates and working on other ways to make WQRI News a strong aspect of the station.
Send all questions, suggestions, lamentations and evil spells to newsdirector_wqri@hawks.rwu.edu.
Below are a few major international headlines.
A leader from Iraq’s largest Shiite party paid a rare visit to Sunni Anbar province to give a message of unity to sheiks who stages a U.S. backed revolt against al-Qaeda militants. In Baghdad, nine died in a car bombing; the death toll from Saturday’s bombing in Samarra was 18
China’s communist party is likely to promote younger members at its congress this week, a move toward officials more experienced in economics and foreign policy.
Myanmar’s rulers eased some internet access and loosened a curfew, but arrests of government
Turkey’s army chief warned military ties with the US will be damaged if congress passes a resolution labeling the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide
Death rates from cancer in the US are falling faster amid progress against colorectal cancer, scientists concluded in a national report
