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Laurent THOMET

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab is seen at the opening of the WEF Davos Agenda virtual sessions at the WEF's headquarters in Cologny near Geneva on January 17, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 19, 2022, 5:50 pm
100-plus global millionaires make unusual plea: ‘Tax us now’
Appeal comes as study finds wealth tax on world’s richest could raise $2.52 trillion per year — enough to pay for COVID vaccines for all, pull 2.3 billion people from poverty
By Laurent THOMET
Illustrative: In this March 17, 2020 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers in protective suits push a cart with passengers' luggage at the New China International Exhibition Center, which has been converted into a facility to screen international flight passengers arriving in Beijing. (Peng Ziyang/Xinhua via AP)
March 18, 2020, 6:08 am
China to expel US journalists as media freedom row grows
New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporters ejected after limits on Chinese media and as superpowers feud over the coronavirus pandemic
By Laurent THOMET
Tourists, some wearing a mask, queue to enter the Louvre museum, in Paris, February 28, 2020. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP)
March 2, 2020, 4:07 pm
EU raises virus alert as cases in Italy double, Louvre museum closes
Official says 38 Europeans have died and 2,100 are infected, as global death toll tops 3,000
By Laurent THOMET
Medical staff wearing protective suits carry the coffin containing the body of Assunta Pastore, 87,who died after testing positive for the coronavirus at the Garden hotel in Laigueglia, northwest Italy, Liguria region, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo)
March 2, 2020, 7:55 am
Global coronavirus death toll tops 3,000 as second man dies in US
Virus has now infected more than 88,000 people and spread to over 60 countries after first emerging in China; New York reports first case
By Laurent THOMET
Residents wearing masks wait at a traffic light in Beijing, China, on February 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
February 13, 2020, 11:40 am
China reports hundreds of new deaths from coronavirus
More than 1,300 people have died from and nearly 60,000 are infected since the outbreak began two months ago
By Laurent THOMET and Helen ROXBURGH
Medical staff strike over coronavirus concerns outside government headquarters in Hong Kong, February 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
February 6, 2020, 6:03 pm
Global fears rise as more coronavirus cases found on cruise ship
Death toll soars to 563, with over 28,000 infections; thousands of travelers on vessels off Hong Kong and Japan quarantined
By Helen ROXBURGH and Laurent THOMET
A vehicle in the motorcade of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen in Beijing on January 8, 2019. (Nicolas ASFOURI/AFP)
January 8, 2019, 8:07 am
North Korea’s Kim visits China ahead of expected Trump summit
Pyongyang and Beijing are allied in their efforts to change Washington’s policies on trade and nuclear weapons
By Laurent THOMET and Eva XIAO
The shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. (Fraunhofer Institute FHR via AP)
April 2, 2018, 6:08 am
Defunct Chinese space lab plunges back to Earth over Pacific
Beijing says Tiangong-1 ‘mostly’ burnt up above ocean’s central region, with the remote location likely depriving stargazers of a spectacle of fireballs falling from sky
By Laurent THOMET
Two security guards watch near the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 27, 2018. Speculation intensified on March 27, 2018 that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was in Beijing for a surprise visit, after Japanese media reported the arrival of a special North Korean train met by an honour guard under tight security. ( AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO)
March 28, 2018, 4:16 am
It’s official: North Korea’s Kim makes first foreign trip to meet China’s Xi
In confirmation of visit to Beijing, Kim vows he is ‘committed to denuclearization’ and willing to hold summit with Trump
By Laurent THOMET
US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hand with China's President Xi Jinping at the end of a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Fred DUFOUR)
November 9, 2017, 10:31 am
Trump urges China’s Xi to work ‘hard’ and fast on North Korea
Bemoaning ‘one-sided and unfair’ trade surplus, US president signs $250 billion in business deals, enjoys pomp and ceremony
By Laurent THOMET, Jerome Cartillier and Ben Dooley
In this Jan. 22, 2017, photo provided by US Navy, the USS John S. McCain conducts a patrol in the South China Sea while supporting security efforts in the region. (James Vazquez/US Navy via AP)
August 25, 2017, 8:45 am
US Navy collisions a propaganda windfall for China
American vessels ‘becoming a hazard in Asian waters,’ China Daily editorial says, as many in region question US capabilities
By Laurent THOMET
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman (center) being escorted in an unknown location by Mexican police as he is extradited to the United States on January 19, 2017. (AFP/Mexican Interior Ministry)
January 20, 2017, 11:38 am
Mexico extradites drug baron to US on eve of inauguration
Experts divided over whether handover of kingpin known as ‘El Chapo’ is gesture to departing Obama or incoming Trump
By Jennie Matthew and Laurent THOMET
The Cuban interior ministry building with the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during Fidel Castro's memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP Photo/Adalberto Roque)
November 28, 2016, 8:34 pm
Throngs pay homage to Cuba’s Fidel Castro
Thousands of Cubans pay final respects to deceased leader at Revolution Square, site of some of his most famous speeches
By Laurent THOMET
Inventor Elon Musk. (CC BY Heisenberg Media/Wikipedia)
September 27, 2016, 9:44 pm
Elon Musk unveils plan for Mars ‘city’
Undaunted by rocket explosion, SpaceX aims for self-sustaining human presence on the red planet, and a ‘fun’ trip over
By Laurent THOMET and Kerry SHERIDAN
US President Barack Obama arrives in Panama City on April 9, 2015 for a summit of leaders from the Americas, where thawing ties with Cuba top the agenda. Regional leaders begin to arrive for a historic Summit of the Americas that will see the US and Cuban presidents sit face to face for the first time in decades. (photo credit:AFP/RAUL ARBOLEDA)
April 10, 2015, 7:47 am
Cuba, US top diplomats hold historic meeting
Kerry, Bruno Rodriguez at first encounter since 1958 in Panama ahead of groundbreaking Obama-Castro summit
By Laurent THOMET and Andrew BEATTY
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