MANILA – A Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge on Monday acquitted the former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos from charges that he...
A Reuters exclusive report said that the FBI did not have any prior knowledge of the raid conducted by the Philippine National Police-Special Action Forces (PNP-SAF)...
MANILA – ”This country is not worth dying for, sir, kung ‘yung gobyerno natin hindi kami kayang protektahan as a warrior (This country is...
BEIRUT—The Islamic State group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack...
BANGKOK—When Thailand’s military junta sensed it was being criticized this week, the country’s rulers reacted as they always do: by issuing stern warnings and summoning those...
MANILA, Philippines—A Philippine official says the country no longer deserves to be branded the “sick man of Asia” after its economy grew more than 6 per cent for a...
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines has urged fellow Southeast Asian nations to demand that China immediately stop its land reclamation in contested South China Sea reefs, warning the 10-nation bloc’s credibility may be...
MONTREAL—The Islamic community centre that controversial imam Hamza Chaoui had hoped to open in east Montreal will not see the light of day, local officials said....
MANILA, Philippines—The cellphone message of the Filipino police commandos to their base was triumphant: “Mike 1 bingo,” a code meaning they have killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terror suspects,...
MONTREAL—As a Saudi blogger with Canadian ties was spared a scheduled flogging for a third straight week Friday, a supporter expressed hope the pardon of a...