The Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with arrest when she goes to work in his country. According to the president, the Philippines are no longer members of the ICC, which is therefore no longer entitled to carry out investigations in the country.
Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he wants to receive Rohingya who have fled Myanmar. 'I am prepared to accept refugees. Rohingya. I will help, but we should share them with Europe, 'he said during a speech.
'A cesspool,' the Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte called the island of Boracay. He closes the idyllic resort half a year for tourists. A disaster for the hotels, but which tourist wants to sunbathe on a polluted stretch of beach? De Telegraaf put five heavily polluted beaches in a row.
The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered the police to give openness to thousands of deadly incidents in the war against drugs. The government had wanted to keep the details secret, but the court stood up.
A serious bus accident in the Philippines has killed at least nineteen people. More than ten people were injured, reports the police.
Because of a fire in a large tourist hotel in the Philippine capital Manila, at least four people were killed. Six others were injured. In addition, there are at least nineteen people trapped in the building, the authorities said Sunday.
The Philippines step out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The country reacts to the investigation that the court announced to extrajudicial killings.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has called on police officers and soldiers not to cooperate in international investigations into extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
Thirty luxurious cars that turn into scrap heaps in no time. Under the watchful eye of the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, a bulldozer drove the smuggled goods on Tuesday. The action counts as Dutert's latest striking measure in the fight against corruption.
Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has instructed his men to disable him if he emerges as a dictator. 'I do not joke', he emphasized during a visit to an army base.
The Philippine authorities have opened an investigation Monday into the fire in a shopping center in Davao, in the south of the country. The fire probably cost the lives of at least 37 people.
The Philippines have again been hit by a serious incident with many victims. In the event of a major traffic accident, at least twenty people were killed and 24 wounded on Christmas Day when a minibus collided head-on with a passenger bus.
The death toll following the tropical storm Kai-Tak that swept across large parts of the Philippines last weekend, has risen to almost ninety. The authorities report that. Dozens of people are still missing.
In the east of the Philippines off the coast of Dinahican, a ferry was sunk Thursday with 251 passengers on board. A local radio station reported three deaths.
The tropical storm Kai-Tak, which ravaged parts of the Philippines during the weekend, killed at least seventeen people. About thirty others are missing in the city of Naval, where landslides have occurred due to heavy rainfall.
The authorities in the Philippines have evacuated more than 40,000 people because of the tropical storm Kai-Tak that is currently crossing the country. The storm is accompanied by heavy rainfall causing flooding and landslides.
The Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte dismissed the chief of the national anti-drugs office for corruption. Dionisio Santiago must clear the field because he would have received gifts from drug lords. He had only been in service for four months.
By imposing new sanctions, the United States declares Russia to their enemy and 'not just opponents'. That said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, reported RIA Press Agency on Tuesday. Nevertheless, Mededev had promising words for Donald Trump.
Human rights organizations responded to a report from the Myanmar Army, which denies any involvement of soldiers in cruelties against the Rohingya population. According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, it is clear that impartial research is offered by the United Nations.
US President Donald Trump left the Philippines on Tuesday. He made a summit with East Asian leaders because the program lasted longer than planned.
US President Donald Trump said Monday had a 'great relationship' with his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte. He commented just before the two controversial leaders met in the margin of an Asian summit.
Shortly before the arrival of US President Donald Trump in the Philippine capital of Manila, protesters opposed his policy to the US Embassy on Sunday. The riot police have been deployed to keep protesters a kilometer away from the embassy building. There is also a water cannon in use.
The Philippine army has put an end to the five-month fighting with an Islamic state-owned rebel group in the town of Marawi.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared that the city of Marawi is free from insurgents affiliated with IS. The president declared Marawi liberated while visiting Philippine troops in the city, reporting local Filipino media. The Philippine army killed two rebel leaders on Monday.
The Philippine army has killed two leaders of an Israeli-based rebel group. The Minister of Defense declared Monday that Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon came across fights in the city of Marawi, in the south of the Philippines.
The Philippine police are losing control of the bloody war against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte conducts. He gives the anti-drug agency PDEA the lead on operations to reduce drug crime.
The shooter's girlfriend who launched a massacre in Las Vegas arrived in the United States on Tuesday night. The 62-year-old Marilou Danley arrived at Los Angeles Airport. She came from the Philippines.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wants his daughter to follow him as head of state. 'I can not imagine a better candidate than her could be the next president,' said Duterte in the newspaper Philippine Star Sunday. The elections will be held in 2022.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte invites the United Nations Human Rights Watch Dog to open an office in his country. He also showed willing staff members of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to join the police.
The police chief of the Philippine capital, Manila, has ordered to send a complete police force back to the school desks. The 1200 agents from Caloocan will be released in the meantime.
