21.   Last year, Eurotunnel stopped paying interest on its massive debts and has been seeking a new payment plan with bankers who are owed billions.

22.   North Korea is believed to owe billions of dollars to Russia, China, Japan and other countries.

23.   Russia has close ties with Iraq, which owes it billions of dollars, and has been pressing Baghdad to accept inspectors as a condition for lifting the sanctions.

24.   The country is known to owe billions of dollars to Russia, Japan, China, Austria, Sweden and other Western countries.

25.   The government owes billions of rubles in overdue pensions and wages to state workers.

26.   The two utilities owe billions to power wholesalers who shut off their credit, forcing the state to step in and buy electricity.

27.   It owed billions more in loans, credit line repayments and payments on energy contracts.

28.   The government has owed billions of dollars to national contracts who had carried out development projects in the kingdom but have not been paid fully.