Posts Tagged ‘U.S.’

U.S. Watches As Ambassador Holbrooke Collapses

Latest Personal Loan Offers: Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is struggling in a critical condition at George Washington University hospital after admission on Friday morning. “This morning, doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. [...]

International Outrage Follows Arrest of Wikileaks Founder

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent London, United Kingdom (AHN) – International protest is building about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week. Assange is being held in a British jail awaiting extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to extradite him to the United States to [...]

New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]

House Votes To Cut Funds For Terror Detainee Transfers Out Of Guantanamo Bay

AHN News Staff Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – In an attempt to prevent President Barack Obama’s plan to bring terror suspects to the United States for trial, the House voted 212-206 on Tuesday to curb the government’s expenses in the fiscal year. The measure targeted funds aimed at transferring inmates from a military holding [...]

Wal-Mart to stop extra $1 Sunday pay for employees

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News News Writer Bentonville, Arkansas, United States (AHN) – Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday that it will no longer pay its employees who work Sundays an additional $1 an hour. The new policy, however, would only cover workers hired after Jan. 1, 2011. Current U.S. employees numbering 1.4 million will not be [...]

Israel votes to ease Gaza’s export restrictions

AHN News Staff Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) – Israel, which has restricted all exports from Gaza since 2007 when Hamas took control of the region, has shown some liberty and allowed exports of items like furniture, textiles and agricultural products – a move welcomed by the human rights groups. The right groups said that they would [...]

U.S. Gaming Revenues To Recover in Late 2011, 2014 Revenues to Reach $68B

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The gaming industry which has been hard hit in recent years is slated is slated to rebound due to improved economic conditions triggering a recovery in U.S. gaming revenues in late 2011. However 2007 pre-economic meltdown gaming revenue levels will not [...]

Documents Show Concern Over U.S. Troops Based in Colombia

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The latest Wikileaks disclosures this week show deep concern among Latin American countries about the U.S. military presence in South America. Much of the concern focuses on the use of seven Colombian military bases by American troops. Brazilian foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio [...]

U.S. seek new rules for nonbank lenders

The Obama administration on Monday introduced a proposal that would require thousands of independent mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers not affiliated with banks to file reports to the Treasury Department when fraud or money-laundering schemes are suspected. View full post on All Stories

With China Passive Over Pyongyang, U.S. Hosts Korean, Japanese Ministers

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Monday stressed national “solidarity with our South Korean and Japanese allies and noted that these consultations demonstrate the strength of our shared commitment to advancing regional security and stability.” In a post-meeting statement National Security Council Deputy Spokesman Ben [...]

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