Author: George Lanington

Shares in real estate giant China Evergrande have fallen sharply after plans to divest a $ 2.6 billion stake in one of its units failed, raising further questions about whether it can avoid the country's biggest business bankruptcy.On Thursday morning, China Evergrande Group, the parent company of the expanding empire built by former steel industry executive Xu Jiayin, was down 12% in early trading before recovering slightly to -9.8%. Evergrande Property Services, one of its most profitable units, was down 6.45%.Evergrande announced Wednesday that it had formally abandoned plans to sell a 50.1% stake in Evergrande Property Services and said there was "no guarantee" that it would be able to meet its financial obligations to stay afloat.The company, which is the second largest real estat...

A third of small Pacific island states and territories do not plan to send government figures to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.The lack of high-level representation of Pacific nations at the meeting has sparked fears that the concerns of these countries, which are among those most at risk from the climate crisis, will not be adequately represented at the summit.At a meeting of Pacific regional organizations last week, it was confirmed that 13 of the Pacific Small Island Developing States plan to send a leader or minister to COP26 and seven do not, and instead intend to send representatives. from his missions in New York, Brussels. , or other cities, although sources present at the meeting say the number could change in the coming weeks."It is a big pro...

Updated Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 01:45Manu TenorioGTRESInterview Manu Tenorio: "After the summer, I am going to undergo several pigmentation treatments" Accident Manu Tenorio is sincere about the consequences that have remained after being electrocuted This Wednesday, in Madrid, Thermomix inaugurated its ephemeral restaurant, with the support of five important figures: Anne Igartiburu, Lola Herrera, Paco Roncero, Xuso Jones and Manu Tenorio (46), who confessed to having great culinary talent. "I really like to cook. It helps me to relax, to be calm. Besides, during the pandemic I practiced a lot and every Saturday I cooked with a friend of mine, through video calls. The truth is that I had a great time cooking, for example, salmorejo. With the Thermomix it looks spectacular! ", Re...

Alexéi Navalni, 45 years old, who was awarded the Sakharov Prize on Wednesday, is a lawyer, but began to become known in 2008 as an anti-corruption activist through his blog. Later he would create his main platform to carry out his crusade against rottenness in high places, the Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption (FBK in its acronym in Russian), an organization now outside the law and cataloged by the Russian Justice as "extremist".Navalni became very popular in December 2011, when he led the largest mobilizations seen in Russia since the 1990s to denounce the electoral fraud perpetrated in the legislative elections that then gave victory to the Kremlin party, «Russia United ». President Vladimir Putin he has never spoken his name until now. He refers to him as a "citizen" whe...

The Venezuelan opponent, Maria Corina Machado (Caracas, 1967) was one of the women who most stood up to Hugo Chávez. You will remember her when she questioned the former president in the National Assembly and he ordered her to shut up. But although they have tried to silence and disable her politically, she remains firm in Venezuela fighting to remove Nicolás Maduro from power. His combative and radical style It has cost him detractors, especially in the ranks of the opposition itself. Today he speaks with ABC without restrictions about the elections of 21-N, the role of Borrell and the interim government of Juan Guaidó. The extradition of Álex Saab to the United States has generated certain expectations for what he can confess about the Nicolás regime Maduro Do you think he will spe...

Javier AnsorenaCONTINUECorrespondent in New York Updated:21/10/2021 01: 05h Keep The number of arrests of undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico is incontestable proof that the arrival of Joe Biden to the White House It has been a 'pull effect' for those seeking to enter the US illegally. Data for fiscal year 2012 - between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021 - from the Customs and Border Police (CBP) show that the historical record of arrests has been broken: 1.7 million arrests of undocumented persons in that period.The data, to which 'The Washington Post' has had access but which is expected to be made public this week, is a jug of cold water in the Biden Administration, which avoids in all ways to speak of a 'crisis' at the border and he has tried to justi...

Poly MartínezCorrespondent in Bogotá Updated:21/10/2021 01:30h Keep Related newsRodrigo Granda He was always known as the FARC foreign minister at the time when members of that guerrilla group moved through different countries, especially in Latin America, and were received by some European authorities or organizations as part of their guerrilla proselytizing abroad. Then, the war between the Colombian State and the now extinct FARC-EP guerrilla was also fought with headlines from Caracas, Tlaxcala, they walked through some diplomatic rooms or at international events in Costa Rica or Switzerland, similar to the one that Granda would attend. starting this Thursday, in Mexico City. It is about the XXV International Seminar 'The Parties and the New Society', but in which he ...

The story and its protagonists are always complex and, in contemporary eyes, often contradictory. Thomas Jefferson, A central figure in the founding of the United States and in the establishment of the longest-standing democratic system in the world, he was without a doubt. He drew up perhaps the most influential political text of the last two and a half centuries: “We hold these truths self-evident: that men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, "he wrote in the Declaration of Independence of 1776. At the same time that he promulgated equality and liberty, he owned slaves until his death and held ideas racists over blacks. The complexity and historical stature of Jeff...