More than half of Tunisia’s population is under the age of 25 and despite the fact that the country has a high number of graduates, the youth unemployment rate is around 30%. View full post on All Stories

Malawi’s gross domestic product has grown by more than six percent in each year since 2005. The country’s most recent Welfare Monitoring Survey finds unemployment stands at just one percent. At a glance, Malawi makes being a landlocked, least developed country almost desirable. View full post on All Stories

Spain’s embattled socialist prime minister announced Saturday he will not seek re-election in 2012 as his country grapples with debt, high unemployment and a faltering economy badly hit by the international financial crisis.Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a meeting of party leaders he would limit his time in office to two terms, opening a View [...]

Personal training is one of the fastest-growing careers in America and, with our country in the middle of an obesity epidemic AND experiencing a high unemployment rate, it might be the opportunity of a lifetime for job seekers looking for… View full post on All Stories

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After weeks of civil unrest that began in protest of the country’s high level of corruption and unemployment and became a referendum on the President himself, Tunisian President Ben Ali fled the country late this afternoon. View full post on All Stories

The country’s unemployment rate dipped a little below 5 percent to 4.98 percent, hitting a 23 month low. View full post on All Stories

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 [...]

The Obama administration has reportedly put pressure on Switzerland about any moves to offer a haven to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, warning that country’s government to be careful about which person it is offering asylum to, even as the latter’s supporters have erected numerous copies of the site on the Internet on Sunday. View full [...]

Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor Samukh, Azerbaijan (AHN) – Azerbaijan’s state veterinary service has officially confirmed that N1H1 virus was found in one of the blood samples sent from the west Azerbaijani region of Samukh where many of the country’s poultry farms are located. A one month moratorium, or ban on bird-hunting has been [...]

By Saturday evening the decree prompted 283 of the 295 controllers scheduled to report for duty to do so, and flights were resuming at an increasing pace at airports packed with bewildered travelers. Spain’s government halted an air traffic control strike by imposing an emergency decree to threaten the disgruntled employees with prison terms under [...]