Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday urged police to kill dozens of drug suspects every day, as he praised officers who shot dead 32 people this week in "shock and awe" raids. Duterte's incendiary comments came as he acknowledged major problems in his drug war, ...
New evidence released by Australian government agencies on Wednesday may have narrowed the location of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the lead body behind search operations for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, released two reports, one of which concluded ...
The nuclear conflict with North Korea that has made Guam the target of a threatened attack has led to new calls to change the government of the Pacific island, whose inhabitants are American citizens but have no say in electing the president or the ...
The threatened missile attack by North Korea on Guam has prompted calls for peace from the island's indigenous people, who are weary of yet another conflict after enduring centuries of hostilities. About one-third of the U.S. territory's 160,000 people identify as Chamorro, the indigenous group ...
Like squabbling siblings, New Zealand and Australia have close ties but also a rivalry that can sometimes turn ugly. That tension spilled into politics on Tuesday, when Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop accused New Zealand's opposition Labour Party of conspiring to undermine her government, a ...
North Korea likely has the ability to produce its own missile engines and intelligence suggests it does not need to rely on imports, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The assessment disputes a new study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies that said ...
If, after all the fanfare, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doesn't actually launch missiles toward Guam, many may write the whole episode off as another of the North's seemingly endless bluffs. But from Pyongyang's perspective and in the eyes of some U.S. military experts, ...
Indonesian police said they arrested five suspected Islamic militants on Tuesday and seized chemicals that were to be used for attacks on several locations, including the presidential palace. West Java police spokesman Yusri Yunus said the militants arrested in the city of Bandung were members ...
An emergency alert was mistakenly broadcast to Guam residents amid fears of missile strikes against the Pacific island by North Korea. The alert went out on a radio station just after midnight Tuesday in Guam and said a "civil danger warning" had been issued for ...
Students scrambled to safety as sirens blared during a tsunami drill on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Tuesday, part of a campaign to prepare for disasters in the quake-prone country. Students at the Tanjung Benoa 2 elementary school took cover under their desks ...
The Palestinian president has wished North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "health and happiness" at a time of rising nuclear tensions with the U.S. President Mahmoud Abbas sent the greeting on Tuesday in honor of "Liberation Day," when both North and South Korea celebrate their ...
President Donald Trump ratcheted up trade tensions with China on Monday, ordering an investigation into Beijing's practices on intellectual property at a time when relations are already strained over North Korea. Trump signed a memorandum directing U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether Chinese ...
