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 [...]
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U.S. Watches As Ambassador Holbrooke Collapses
December 12th, 2010 
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December 11th, 2010 davidguide Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Nepali Diasporas living in New York face a language barrier, creating a major challenge that causes immigrants to miss out on jobs and other opportunities in the United States. Most of the Nepalis who reached the U.S. in search of green pastures are at the [...]
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December 11th, 2010 davidguide 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 [...]
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December 11th, 2010 davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]
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December 10th, 2010 davidguide 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 [...]
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December 9th, 2010 davidguide 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 [...]
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December 9th, 2010 davidguide First-time claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell by more than anticipated in the week ended December 4th, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday, although jobless claims remain above the two-year low set in late November. The report showed that initial jobless claims fell to 421,000 from the previous [...]
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December 7th, 2010 davidguide LONDON (MarketWatch) — U.K. supermarket giant Tesco PLC said Tuesday that total group sales in the fiscal third quarter rose 8.2%. The company said its U.K. business grew faster than the industry as a whole and that it’s continuing to see evidence of a steady consumer recovery in the country. Total U.K. sales excluding petrol [...]
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December 7th, 2010 davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Monday stressed national “solidarity with our South Korean and Japanese allies and noted that these consultations demonstrate the strength of our shared commitment to advancing regional security and stability.” In a post-meeting statement National Security Council Deputy Spokesman Ben [...]
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December 7th, 2010 davidguide Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart that claims billions of dollars of back pay and damages on behalf of female employees. The lawsuit joins the claims of 1.5 million women who worked at the retail giant [...]
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