Public debt owned by foreigners has increased to approximately 50% of the total or approximately $3.4 trillion.

South Korea is estimated to have $67 billion to $77 billion in short-term debt owned by financial institutions and investors worldwide, and there is good reason to question whether it has the resources to pay that back.

Likewise, the appropriation of Union property in the South and the forced repudiation of debts owned by Southerners to Northerners failed to raise substantial revenue.

Bulgaria wrote off $56.6 million in Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to the international fund six months after the medics were freed.

On 18 September 2012 North Korea and Russia signed a deal on debt owned by Pyongyang to Moscow.

It means that we citizens are paying a good chunk of our income tax each year for interest on debt owned by the Chinese and the Japanese.

In 1860, a probate court in Ohio sold the Kirtland Temple as a means of paying off some debts owned by Joseph Smith, Jr.'s estate.

Mr Sawar could use the set-off effect of Rule 4.90 to reduce the debt owned to BCCI.

Agrexco went into liquidation on August 2011 with debts of €175 million ($217 million), mainly owned to its bondholders that were mostly Israeli Institutional investors.

By 1989, the station was in dire financial straits, most reportedly from debts owned to film houses for movies shown on the station.