Philippines | Pacquiao’s Senate victory brings him closer to presidency

Boxing great Manny Pacquiao was proclaimed yesterday as a winner of a Philippine Senate seat, bringing him closer to a possible crack at the presidency. At the proclamation ceremony, an elections

India | Train brings water to a drought-hit central region

Many trains pull into Latur’s railroad station, but none is as eagerly awaited as the train that pulls into the parched town in the dead of the night. That train —

Afghanistan | Medical charity urges US to pay Kunduz hospital victims

A leading medical charity that suffered massive losses when U.S. helicopter gunships mistakenly struck its clinic in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz is criticizing the United States for failing

US-North Korea | Trump says he’d speak with Kim Jong Un over nukes

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’s open to speaking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to halt the communist nation’s nuclear program. “I would speak to him,

Philippines | Communist rebels welcome Cabinet post offer

Communist rebel leaders welcomed yesterday a possible offer from the Philippines’ presumptive president-elect of four Cabinet posts, raising the prospect of a government that includes Marxist guerrillas who have long

North Korea names ex-nuclear envoy as new foreign minister

North Korea has named a career diplomat and ex-nuclear envoy with broad experience in negotiating with rivals South Korea and the United States as its new foreign minister, according to

Corruption | Malaysia says too early to conclude fraud in 1MDB-Abu Dhabi deal

Malaysia said yesterday it’s too early to conclude if fraud had occurred in dealings between its troubled state company and an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. 1Malaysia Development Bhd., which is

Philippines | Bloody anti-crime purge may haunt next president

Nine years ago Father Amado Picardal helped bury a teenager from a slum family who was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assassins in the southern Philippine city of Davao. The death

Philippine president-elect to offer Cabinet posts to rebels

Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he will reimpose the death penalty, offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, and move to amend the constitution to give more power to

Malaysia | Growth eases further as exports, investments slip

Malaysia’s economy grew at the slowest pace in more than six years as exports weakened and private investment eased, adding pressure on policy makers to boost growth amid an uneven

Malaysia | Two more pieces ‘almost certainly’ from Flight 370

Malaysia’s government said yesterday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are “almost certainly” from Flight 370, bringing the total number of

Philippines | Incoming government to continue high-growth path

The transition team of Rodrigo Duterte, the presumptive Philippine president, said yesterday his administration will continue the macroeconomic policies of his predecessor that put the Southeast Asian nation on a

WWII | Japanese happy Obama to visit Hiroshima, apology or not

Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama’s decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed yesterday said they aren’t seeking an apology. Even those who want one realize that such a demand would have

Vietnam | Ahead of Obama visit, wife of prisoner seeks US help

The wife of a prominent Vietnamese human rights lawyer who was badly beaten by thugs and then detained by authorities appealed yesterday for President Barack Obama to seek her husband's

Philippines | Aquinos’ legacy clouded by Duterte win, support for a Marcos

Philippine leader Benigno Aquino III had called this week’s election a referendum on his “straight path” style of reformist governance, but his candidate lost by millions of votes to a

Australia | Police allege five radicals planned to leave Melbourne by boat

Five men have been arrested on suspicion that they planned to leave Australia in a seven-meter boat to fight in Syria, police said yesterday. The men, aged 21 to 33, had towed the

North Korea | Mass rally after congress bolsters leader

After a ruling-party congress in which leader Kim Jong Un enshrined his hold on power and his commitment to developing nuclear weapons, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans celebrated with

Xi Jinping congratulates Kim on new title

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended his congratulations to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his new title of chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, underscoring traditional ties

Philippines | At parents’ tomb, next President shows softer side

Soon after it became apparent from election results that Rodrigo Duterte would be the next president of the Philippines, he drove at 3 a.m. yesterday to a cemetery to visit his

Marcos Jr. asks that unofficial VP vote count be halted

The late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ son, who is running for vice president, called yesterday for a stop to an unofficial vote count that shows his rival has overtaken him. Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong”

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