Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. government announced financial sanctions Thursday against Mexican companies accused of helping the Sinaloa drug cartel launder money it earns from its criminal enterprises. The Treasury Department is seizing the U.S. assets of 12 companies and 16 individuals it has linked to [...]

Medtronic Inc., which expanded its operations to San Antonio in 2009, says it has entered into an agreement to settle existing U.S. lawsuits relating to its Sprint Fidelis family of defibrillation leads. (MDT) View full post on Insurance Stories

Anne Lu – AHN Entertainment Contributor Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama is the World’s Most Powerful Women, according to the latest Forbes list. Joining her in the top 25 are five women from the entertainment industry, including Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres. The list has been divided into [...]

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – A price comparison site advised small business owners to lease instead of buy new cars to cut costs. But the advice is primarily for those who trade in their older models for new units every four or five years. According to FinanceAcar.co.uk’s comparison, it would cost [...]

Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Sexually-active American teenagers were found to be more “safe-sex” conscious than baby boomers according to the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans’ sexual behavior since 1994. The survey, filling 130 pages of a special issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine [...]

AHN News Staff Calgary, Alberta, Canada (AHN) – Canadian airlines continue to fly high amid the general slump and growing labor unrest in the global aviation industry. On Monday, WestJet Airlines entered into a code-share deal with Cathay Pacific Airways. It is WestJet’s first code-share agreement, which opens up six Canadian cities to Cathay, in [...]

AHN News Staff Tehran, Iran (AHN) – In order to comply with the American sanctions, four energy companies have announced their withdrawal from Iran. The United States said that Italy’s ENI, Royal Dutch Shell, French Total and Norwegian Statoil on Thursday decided to stop their business with Iranian companies to avoid penalties aimed at companies, [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The United States Congress acted on Friday to open the gates of retaliation against China for their failure to appreciate their currency, the yuan (or renminbi). The action, taken after repeated diplomatic efforts to resolve the ongoing currency dispute, is intended to send [...]

Jeehan Fernandez – AHN News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The U.S. government has granted $434 million to the Philippines for investments in roads, community development projects and improvements in the country’s tax collection efforts under a five-year economic compact that aims to fight poverty. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Thursday declared that the coalition forces were invited to Afghanistan while Russians had invaded and massacred millions of Afghans during their invasion. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates during a Pentagon joint press conference with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman [...]