The former Philippine president may have thought he was too powerful to be arrested over the deaths of thousands of people. He was wrong.
The maverick former Philippines leader’s signature policy drew widespread criticism for its brutality. H was arrested by Interpol on an ICC warrant.
Edgar Matobato says he killed again and again for former president Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Now he’s trying to stay alive to testify.
The president and vice president of the Philippines are at each other’s throats. But the row is a potential proxy for a much more significant conflict.
Sara Duterte says she hired an assassin in case she herself is killed,in a brazen public statement she warned was not a joke.
Democracies have a fatal flaw:majorities can elect leaders who do not believe in democracy or the rule of law or the necessity of strong independent civil institutions such as universities and a free press.
The alliance of two notorious political dynasties was a marriage of convenience,and its rupture has been spectacular.
Weeks of tense standoff in the Philippines have ended in the capture of a pastor accused of leading an international ring of sex abuse and trafficking of young women and girls.
It’s taken a mutual wariness,and even alarm,about China’s economic coercion and territorial expansionism to bond the two nations together.
One of the militants linked to the Islamic State group demanded a helicopter for him to escape.