Chinese promoter Zhongliang Holdings is scrambling to get bondholders’ approval to extend repayment of bonds worth $729 million ahead of a key chance next week, joining its peers who are desperately seeking avoid payment defaults on foreign debts. The Shanghai-based company has struggled to sell enough homes amid China’s long-lasting housing downturn or secure refinancing…
A stele in tribute to the victims of the Battle of Okinawa, in Itoman, in June 2015. HIROKO HARIMA / AP Sitting on the edge of the quay in the small port of Aharen, in Tokashiki, an island in the Kerama archipelago, off the coast of Naha, an elderly fisherman bites into an apple facing…
Arms deliveries are no longer used only to defend Ukraine, but also to weaken the potential Russian threat to the West. The goals cannot be separated from each other, it would be irresponsible to do without them. With every Russian tank destroyed in Ukraine, the West can feel a little safer. Sergei Chuzavkov / Imago…
Analysis Article reserved for subscribers War between Ukraine and Russiacase The US president on Thursday asked Congress for $33 billion to help Ukraine. A colossal envelope that illustrates Washington’s increasingly offensive approach to the Russian invasion. Gone are the days when the United States saw Kyiv fall in two days and therefore carefully weighed each…
ZTwo months after the start of the Ukraine war, the tone has changed in Washington. When Antony Blinken appeared before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, he sounded almost enthusiastic: he had just returned from Kyiv with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The trip left unforgettable impressions, said the Foreign Minister. When both of…
by Pavel Polityuk KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, April 23 (Reuters) – Russian forces resumed an assault on the last Ukrainian elements entrenched in the metallurgical site of Azovstal, Mariupol, on Saturday, two days after Moscow announced its victory in the port city, officials said. local officials. The longest battle since the launch of the offensive in Ukraine,…
KYIV/MARIOUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces resumed an assault on the last Ukrainian elements entrenched in the metallurgical site of Azovstal, Mariupol, on Saturday, two days after Moscow announced its victory in the port city, local officials said. The longest battle since the launch of the offensive in Ukraine, the siege of Mariupol, should allow,…
Frederic Michel edited by Wassila Belhacine 10:29 a.m., April 04, 2022modified to 10:42 a.m., April 04, 2022 REPORT Return to calm Monday morning in Corsica, after another night of violence following a demonstration in tribute to Yvan Colonna. The rally degenerated Sunday in Ajaccio, where several thousand people had gathered. Clashes broke out between a…
Jacques Serais, Ugo Pascolo, with AFP 4:19 p.m., March 30, 2022modified to 5:14 p.m., March 30, 2022 For ten days and the publication of a Senate report, the McKinsey affair has disrupted the campaign already shortened by Emmanuel Macron. To the point that the Head of State had to bang his fist on the table…
Chronic. Back to a bipolar universe? The war between Russia and Ukraine would reinforce a division of the world into two camps. the “western collective”, as they say in Moscow, opposes the duo Vladimir Putin – Xi Jinping, leaders of the family of autocrats. With, in the middle, the club of emerging powers which refuse…
Grandstand. We must take stock of the importance of export control measures in the European response to the invasion of Ukraine. In a few days, the G7 countries and the European Union (EU) succeeded in setting up a control regime whose restriction capacities are unprecedented since the end of the cold war, serving a clear…
Paris (awp/afp) – World stock markets remained fragile on Tuesday, before the start of the US Federal Reserve meeting, and while the confinements in China pose a threat to global growth, already affected by the war in Ukraine. In Europe, the indices made up only part of the losses of the morning, which amounted to…
