OANA) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called respectively Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to underscore bilateral relations following the embarrassing revelations by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. View full post on All Stories

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 [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday sought a clean start in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by urging both sides to tackle “without delay” the core issues of their decades-old conflict. Clinton made the appeal in a speech days after the Obama administration admitted it View full post on All Stories

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 [...]

Regulators on Friday shut down small banks in Michigan and Pennsylvania, boosting the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year to 151 as bad loans have mounted and the economy has been slow to heal. View full post on All Stories

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) — U.S. President Obama meets with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski Wednesday for two meetings in the Oval Office, the White House said. View full post on All Stories

In fact, Elizabeth MP Ryan Pinder, who is also a noted tax attorney, said there are distinct indicators that the US economy is not experiencing a “modest rate of increase” as the prime minister previously stated. Mr. Pinder said the prime minister arrived at his conclusion based on “misguided statistics.” Last Thursday Mr. Ingraham noted [...]

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 [...]