Hosting what she called a "thanksgiving" lunch for scores of journalists at her office instead of meeting with government investigators, she accused the government of plotting to have her removed from office and charged in court. Duterte, 46, had b...

Taipei has this week accused China of launching its biggest maritime drills in years, with about 60 warships and 30 coastguard vessels deployed, spanning from near the southern islands of Japan to the South China Sea. Beijing has not confirmed the...

Aleksandar Sapic is demanding 100,000 euros ($105,000) in damages from the investigative news site where Markovic works -- an enormous sum for such a case in the Balkans. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) -- one of the best outlets ...

They are among more than 60 people, including 12 children, mostly Tamils from Sri Lanka and India, who were brought to Britain last week after years stuck in a legal limbo. The migrants, who had been rescued after getting into trouble in the water...

Japanese media said the Olympic Council of Asia is not happy with preparations for the event in Nagoya and the wider Aichi Prefecture area and has accused organisers of not sticking to the host city contract. Aichi governor Hideaki Omura, who also ...

Antetokounmpo scored 37 points with seven rebounds and four blocked shots for the Bucks, who reached the semi-finals of the in-season tournament for the second year in a row and will face either the New York Knicks or Atlanta Hawks for a place in th...

Spurs have won just once in their past seven games in all competitions –- a spectacular 4-0 rout of English champions Manchester City –- to tumble to 11th in the Premier League and ninth in the Europa League. A 4-3 defeat to London rivals Chels...

New President Prabowo Subianto offered a surprise commitment at last month's G20 summit to close hundreds of coal and fossil-fuel power plants by 2040, a bold pledge from one of the world's top coal producers and consumers. "It will be difficult to...

Police said they were seeking two males believed to be in their late teens who were "disguised" and seen running from the scene in the early hours. The offenders burned the car they had been driving, and spread graffiti over the burned car, another...

Liu Yi, who was secretary general of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), was handed an 11-year sentence and fined 3.6 million yuan ($497,000) for taking bribes, a court in central Hubei province said. A separate court in the same province said ...

"Happy times are coming in Argentina," Milei said in a televised speech, in which he celebrated progress on monthly inflation which has dropped under his cost-slashing agenda, even as poverty has risen. Milei said his government will seek a free tr...

Yoon is already banned from foreign travel as part of an "insurrection" probe into his inner circle over the dramatic events of December 3-4 that stunned South Korea's allies. Police said earlier that a Special Investigation Team "has conducted a r...

Beijing's biggest maritime drills in years involve about 60 warships and 30 coast guard vessels deployed from near the southern islands of Japan to the South China Sea, a senior national security official told AFP on the condition of anonymity. Chi...

Some gave birth to children in unsanitary and overcrowded camps, while others were denied proper medical attention after work-related injuries, according to testimonies given at a news conference in Quito. Justices last week ordered the company, F...

The International Criminal Court will hear three days of closing arguments from Wednesday in the case of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nom de guerre Ali Kushayb. A leader of Sudan's infamous Janjaweed militia, Abd-Al-Rahman face...