The Philippines' ultra-hardline President Duterte, in announcing his "separation" from the US, praised China for providing aid without criticizing his atrocious human rights record.
The Philippines' new ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duterte, now favorably invoking Hitler's genocide as a model for his war on drugs, has already reached a Pinochet-level kill count.
A former death-squad hitman testified to the Philippine Senate that extrajudicial executions in Mindanao were personally ordered by now-president Rodrigo Duterte.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte declared a "state of lawlessness" after a deadly bomb blast at a market in the southern city of Davao by the ISIS-affiliated Abu Sayyaf group.
When Green Party candidate Jill Stein supped with Putin at a Moscow confab, also on hand was Donald Trump's ultra-hawkish military advisor, retired General Mike Flynn.
China refuses to recognize a Hague tribunal ruling in favor of Philippine maritime claims—just one of several conflicts at play as tensions rise in the South China Sea.
President-elect of the Philippines is bombastic anti-crime hardliner Rodrigo Duterte who boasts of his links to death squads—despite his roots on the political left.
At least 18 Philippine soldiers and five militants were killed in a 10-hour fire-fight with the ISIS-loyal Abu Sayyaf group on the conflicted southern island of Mindanao.
Human rights group Global Witness ranked Honduras as the world's most dangerous country for environmental defenders, with 109 slain over the past five years.
Three were killed when security forces opened fire on farmers and lumad (indigenous people) who were blockading a highway in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
President Ma Ying-jeou's provocative visit to the disputed Spratly Islands seems aimed at pressing the incoming Tsai Ing-wen to adopt a "one China" position.
In a series of Christmas eve attacks, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters killed several Christian peasants in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao.
