Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - From rural poverty to real estate billions, the fortunes of Xu Jiayin tracked China's runaway growth for much of the past two decades - but now he is battling to save his Evergrande conglomerate from a quagmire of debt.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2021 - Debt-mired developer Evergrande is struggling to appease angry homebuyers and investors knocking on its doors for cash taken as deposits for unbuilt homes and promised yields.
Havana (AFP) Sept 24, 2015 - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Timoleon Timochenko Jimenez, the leader of the FARC rebels, announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in peace talks to end a conflict that has burned for half a century.
Washington (AFP) Sept 28, 2012 - The US military's current fleet of drones will soon be overtaken by a new wave of robots that will be faster, stealthier and smarter - operating virtually without human intervention, experts say.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 19, 2017 - Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died aged 77, his son told AFP on Tuesday.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - With YouTube videos debunking allegations of human rights abuses and diatribes on Western conspiracies against China, an unlikely set of foreigners are loudly defending Beijing from its international critics.
Perpignan, France (AFP) Sept 10, 2017 - Finalists in one of photojournalism's most prestigious awards competition came away with far more than pictures while covering the fight for Iraq's Mosul, the longest urban battle since Stalingrad.
Washington (UPI) Oct 04 2006 - For the first time a senior Saudi official has spoken out publicly before a Western audience on the tensions between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and acknowledged that the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia have suffered social and political alienation and discrimination.
Washington (UPI) Feb. 6, 2007 - U.S. President George W. Bush's splurge is already bringing premature claims of success, even though the first troops are just arriving in Iraq. A column in the Jan. 29 Washington Times by retired Marine Col. Oliver North quotes an American officer in Iraq as saying, Do they (Members of Congress opposed to the war) even know that in the last two weeks we have set AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq) and the Mahdi Army both back on their heels?
Washington (UPI) Aug. 22, 2006 - Nearly five years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has not won the global war on terror, nor even brought its chief antagonist to justice. And we remain bogged down in a war in Iraq against guerrillas who command the loyalty of at most 20 percent of that country's inhabitants.
Washington (UPI) Aug. 25, 2006 - Shortly after the recent outbreak of violence in Lebanon and Israel, Newt Gingrich made headlines by proposing that existing threats against American interests throughout the world constitute the early stages of World War III.
Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 13, 2019 - Accused of links with the Islamic State group, hundreds of Iraqi families have been evicted from displacement camps only to find their hometowns and tribes angrily refusing their return.
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) Sept 28, 2024 - Israel has killed Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah and several of its top commanders in a series of targeted air strikes on the Iran-backed movement's stronghold in Beirut.
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 19, 2013 - From a windowless room in a dilapidated Hong Kong high-rise, Ali Diallo sells Chinese electronics to retailers across Africa. The modest surroundings belie the multi-million dollar business the West African trader has built in the five years since he moved to the city.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 13, 2023 - Chinese tourists will enjoy visa-free entry to Thailand from the end of September under a temporary scheme announced by the kingdom's newly formed cabinet Wednesday.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 15, 2015 - Thailand's police chief Tuesday linked the Bangkok bomb to China's Uighurs for the first time, as the lawyer for one of two detained foreign suspects confirmed his client is from the Muslim minority.
