Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernard Sanders spent over eight hours denouncing the new agreement to extend Bush-era tax cuts to millions of Americans. Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sanders spoke out against President Barack Obama’s efforts, saying the deal only increases [...]

The Congressional Black Caucus held a news conference to talk about President Obama’s agreement with Republicans on tax cuts and unemployment insurance. Recntly, House Democrats voted in a party meeting to reject the package unless substantial changes are made. Length: 27 min. Published: Today at 10:30am (ET) View full post on All Stories

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Reykjavik, Iceland (AHN) – Iceland will start repaying a $3.45 billion (EUR 2.6 billion) from Britain in 2016. Reykjavik owed the amount to London after the online Icesave Bank failed two years ago. The agreement to repay ends two years of dispute over interest rates between the two countries after [...]

HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cheniere Energy, Inc. (“Cheniere”) (NYSE Amex: LNG) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cheniere Common Units Holding, LLC, has reached an agreement with its lenders to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement dated August 15, 20 View full post on All Stories

JULIA Gillard today signed off a loan agreement with New South Wales to offer $160 million to asbestos victims and their families. View full post on All Stories

Obama was due on Saturday to make a public statement on the pact with South Korea, which has been held up for three years because of U.S. auto and beef industry concerns. President Barack Obama on Saturday was expected to start building the case for approval of a free-trade agreement with South Korea that he [...]

DUBLIN (AP) – An Irish government minister said Saturday he expects an agreement within the next 24 hours on an EU-IMF bailout loan for Ireland worth approximately $115 billion, but he rejected reports that the aid could come with a punitively high interest rate. Communications Minister Eamon Ryan said all sides in the 10-day-old financial [...]

President Barack Obama didn’t reach an agreement with South Korea over a free trade agreement that would boost U.S. economy as China fought back on currency issue. View full post on All Stories

AHN News Staff Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) – Nearly eight months after Iraq’s disputed elections, political rivals of the country on Sunday agreed on a power-sharing deal. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced that the political parties reached an agreement under which Jalal Talabani would continue as head of state and Nuri al-Maliki would stay on as [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Tehran, Iran (AHN) – Iran began injecting fuel into its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, a week after a small leak delayed the process. According to state-run Press TV, fuel assemblies were loaded into the Bushehr plant under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The plant [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Monday denied claims from the WikiLeaks released information that the U.S. turned a blind eye to the torture of the Iraqi citizens by Iraqi security forces. “We have not turned a blind eye,” said PJ Crowley, the State Department [...]