Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Treasury Department sold $13 billion in 30-year bonds Wednesday at a record low yield of 2.925 percent. Despite the debt security having the lowest yield on record, investors in the U.S. and around the world still have a hearty appetite [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Charlotte, NC, United States (AHN) – Bank of America on Wednesday announced it has agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle a dispute with investors who lost money on mortgage-backed securities. It is the largest settlement ever for a mortgage lender and ends a nine-month battle between the bank [...]

Madia, Mindanao, Philippines (IRIN) – Rain and flooding over the past month have severely affected thousands of farmers who have recently returned to their homes in conflict-affected Mindanao. Farmer Sandatu Kalug, 58, from the village of Madia in Maguindanao, the worst affected province, told IRIN: “I had just planted my field… Now I’ve lost everything.” [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Monday commented on the crackdown by the Indian security forces on self-proclaimed guru Baba Ramdev and his followers at the Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi, calling it an ‘internal Indian issue.’ Asked to compare the Indian crackdown in Delhi [...]

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Obama administration considers reports that hackers in China tapped into the e-mail accounts of American government and military leaders to be a “serious” national security issue, a White House spokesman said Thursday. On Wednesday, Internet giant Google reported that hackers based [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – South Korea’s national security policy-making institute said on Tuesday that North Korean hackers are getting more sophisticated after paralyzing the computer network of a local agricultural cooperative bank and will next target government websites. Nam Sung-wook of the Institute for National Security Strategy [...]

13 protesters killed in the Syrian town of Homs Syrian security forces killed 13 people protesting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the town of Homs. Roula Amin, an al-Jazeera English journalist in Damascus, noted further that “people are complaining that many of the wounded are not going to the hospital, they [...]

Shafi’i Abokar – AHN News AHN Correspondent Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – The administration of the Banaadir region of southern Somalia on Saturday ordered the closure of all business centers in the capital Mogadishu during Friday prayers every week. The order was issued during a three-party meeting between the justice and religious affairs minister, the mayor [...]

The purpose of bad credit debt consolidation is to allow an individual with financial concerns to replace all their financial obligations with one new, consolidated loan. The usual way that this is done is by applying for one new loan, which is used to pay off all of the existing ones. Bad credit debt consolidation [...]

The Media Line Staff Gaza City, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Like their counterparts throughout the Arab world, Palestinians have fixed a date for mass popular protests. But while most opposition movements are demanding the ouster of autocratic rulers and democratic reforms, Palestinians are focused on bringing together their warring leadership. Through Facebook and other social [...]

The Media Line Staff Jerusalem, Israel David E. Miller – As reports emerge of carnage unprecedented in the two-month-old Arab uprising, the Arab world has united against Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qaddafi and his regime. Official institutions such as the Arab League, which in the past would have avoided attacking the leader of a member state, [...]