WASHINGTON—Testifying to Hillary Clinton’s grit and experience, President Barack Obama endorsed his former secretary of state’s bid to succeed him on Thursday and urged Democrats to...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A retired Canadian-Iranian professor who studies women’s issues across the Middle East has been detained without charges in Tehran, her family said Thursday,...
MALE, Maldives—A Maldives court on Thursday convicted the country’s former vice-president of masterminding a plot to kill the president by exploding a bomb on his speedboat...
MANILA—Senators Francis “Chiz” Escudero III and Antonio Trillanes IV have opted to join the minority bloc of the Philippine Senate. This after six Liberal Party (LP)...
MANILA—The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to comment on the petition to prosecute officials of Smartmatic who allegedly tampered the Automated...
MANILA—Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security To Lam paid a courtesy call on President Benigno S. Aquino III in Malacañang Palace on Wednesday. Minister To Lam was...
MANILA—President-elect Rodrigo Duterte spent close to P400 million in the May 9, 2016 elections. Based on his Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) submitted to the...
MANILA—Senate President Franklin Drilon ended on Wednesday weeks of speculations about his successor in the 17th Congress, saying at least 17 senators from two groups have...
SAN FRANCISCO—With her furious and graphic 12-page letter to the court, the young woman at the centre of the Stanford University sexual assault case has instantly...
VANCOUVER—A man who was wrongfully convicted on sexual assault charges has been awarded more than $8 million by a B.C. court after spending nearly 27 years...