MANILA — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Sunday confirmed that five Filipinos were abducted in two separate incidents in Iraq and Libya on Friday and...
NEW YORK — Over 100 migrants and refugees held captive by human traffickers were shot at while escaping from a clandestine prison in northwestern Libya and there were...
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Transparency International (TI) 2017 report published on February 21 revealed that the Philippines’ score and rank dropped to its lowest...
BENGHAZI, Libya — Thousands of supporters of Libya’s military strongman Khalifa Hifter rallied Sunday in several cities, calling on him to take charge of the country...
JOHANNESBURG — The European Union and African Union say at least 3,100 migrants who were stranded in Libya have been returned to their home countries in the past...
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned the sale of African migrants into slavery in Libya as “heinous abuses of human rights” that may constitute crimes...
WASHINGTON — It’s not a final ruling, but the Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States...
ROME — A Syrian refugee has been saved at sea after a last-minute check by humanitarian rescuers with binoculars 20 hours after he set out solo...
ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire — Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants are living in camps in Libya, often under “inhuman” conditions, the chairman of the African Union Commission said...
BEIRUT — Islamic State militants, routed from one urban stronghold after another in Syria, have recently been moving deeper into Syria’s remote desert, where experts say...