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Linda Young – AHN News Writer Beijing, China (AHN) – Tightening measures by Beijing have helped to ease China’s inflation rate but not to contain it and officials warn that inflation now is spreading beyond food prices. China’s central bank has increased interest rates by a quarter-point every two months. That resulted in slowing down [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Chicago, IL, United States (AHN) – Michaels Stores is working with federal authorities to resolve what it believes to be PIN pad tampering in its Chicago-area stores. The Texas-based company says credit and debit card information may have been stolen, a suspicion confirmed by reports from customers on the [...]

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Maputo, Mozambique (AHN) – At least three Somali immigrants have been shot and killed by border guards in Mozambique. The men were among nine traveling on foot tthrough Tanzania headed to South Africa when they were sprayed by bullets from Mozambican forces, according to a member of the [...]

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – State funds used to pay pension and healthcare benefits to public employees faced a total shortfall of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009, according to a report by the Pew Center on the States released Tuesday. The shortfall grew 26 percent, or [...]

Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – Google has taken aim at Groupon and LivingSocial by launching a test of its own daily deal coupon program, starting in several techtrendy spots in the United States. Nicknamed Google Offers, it takes aim at one of the hottest social trends online; [...]

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Nepal and the United States clinched their first bilateral trade agreement Friday, opening the doors for preferential entry of Nepali goods. The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) will provide a forum for bilateral talks to enhance trade and investment, discuss specific trade issues, and [...]

Shafi’i Abokar – AHN News AHN Correspondent Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – Al Shabaab militants, the al Qaeda proxy in Somalia, have ordered Somali teachers and their school children to pay a monthly contribution to help finance the group’s combat operations against the United Nations-backed government and African Union peacekeepers in the capital. During a meeting [...]

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia (AHN) – As strife-decimated Somalia suffers under a lengthy drought, food prices have jumped in parts of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland, a local businessman said Saturday. In an interview with All Headline News, Ahmed Awil, a businessman in Puntland’s commercial town Bosaso described price [...]

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – The British government announced a stern visa regime on Wednesday that is likely to axe more overseas students who aspire to study in the country. In a statement from the British embassy in Kathmandu, British Home Minister Theresa May said the major overhaul of the [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – A three-day gain streak ended on Tuesday as U.S. stocks fell following renewed investors’ concern rising oil prices due to the armed conflict in Libya. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 18 points or 0.2 percent to 12,018 with Bank of [...]