MANILA, Feb. 29 – President Benigno S. Aquino III on Monday attended the reinterment of the remains of the country’s sixth President Elpidio Quirino at the...
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines has asked China to respect an upcoming decision by an international arbitration tribunal on Beijing’s claim to most of the South China Sea...
UNITED NATIONS—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for “a prompt and impartial investigation” into the Saturday airstrike on a market in Yemen that killed at...
RAMALLAH—The Palestinians on Sunday called for a binding international resolution to stop the Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and to save the two-state solution....
ATHENS—Greece was taking “all the measures as if borders have closed for good by activating a Plan B to deal with the refugee emergency,” Greek Deputy...
AMMAN—Jordan on Sunday called on the World Bank to increase its support to the country where one third of its population are now refugees, the state-run...
BAGHDAD—The Islamic State (IS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for two deadly bomb attacks in eastern Baghdad that killed at least 28 people and wounded 62...
BAGHDAD—Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 59 people and wounding nearly 100, officials said. A bomb ripped through the...
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of—North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he acknowledged and apologized for attempting...
MANILA—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be conducting next month the Final Testing and Sealing (FTS) of the vote counting machines (VCMs) that will be used...