There are two different views for funding right now in a small business. The bankers are stating clearly that they have funding available. Yet the small business owner is saying they do not. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Banks are taking fewer risks, so they are looking at a company for how much [...]

The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – A military court in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has sentenced at least four men to death, prompting a Palestinian human rights organization to level harsh criticism against capital punishment. The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), a Ramallah-based organization, said that the permanent military court in [...]

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. He is in critical [...]

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has issued a report this week on the occasion of Human Rights Day 2010, highlighting the defects that are evident in the area of the judiciary as extraordinary delays often affect the possibility of fair trail. “The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (AHN) – Former British Columbia Deputy Premier Christy Clark announced Wednesday she will run to become the leader of the Liberal Party in the province and subsequently BC premier. Clark is the fifth BC politician to declare her candidacy to replace BC Liberal Party leader Gordon [...]

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 [...]

The Media Line Staff East Jerusalem, Palestinian Territory (TML) – The Palestinian Authority’s newly formed anti-corruption commission won’t hesitate to investigate ministers that have fled the country or are serving in office and remain politically powerful, the commission’s chief has vowed. Rafiq Natshe, head of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), said he has received 70 [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday called fellow Democrats to quit playing games with ordinary Americans’ lives noting that his top priority is ” to do what’s right for the American people, for jobs, and for economic growth.” Addressing journalists at a press conference [...]

AHN News Staff Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines (AHN) – The president, vice president and senate president of the Philippines got high approval ratings in a Pulse Asia survey released Monday. Only four other key officials received high approval ratings in the survey done the last week of October with 1,200 respondents. President Benigno Aquino III [...]