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    • Today in History: April 17, Bay of Pigs invasion launched

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion by the third ...

    • China's Jiang confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties

      China's Jiang confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties

      Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years ago

      Plucked from obscurity to head China's ruling Communist Party after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was expected to...