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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes full responsibility for his administration's "war on drugs", in a video message posted on his Facebook account, as he braces for a legal battle at the International Criminal Court. "Whatever happened in the past, I will be the front of our...

An unannounced trip by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to Hong Kong set off speculations on Sunday that he may be trying to evade a possible arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court over his bloody crackdown on drugs while in power. Duterte and his daughter—the incumbent...

Rohingya refugees in crammed Bangladeshi camps say they are worried about a U.S. decision to cut food rations by half beginning next month, while a refugee official says the reduction will impact the nutrition of more than 1 million refugees and create “social and mental pressure.” President Donald...

Amid prolonged delays in constituting a committee to nominate bearers for the transitional justice commissions, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has called for immediate action to this effect. Addressing the House of Representatives, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chief Whip Hit Raj Pandey said his party demands...

Hong Kong’s top court overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan, and...

Residents fled a border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of Tuesday, March 4. It was the second consecutive day of tit-for-tat gunfire at Torkham, a key crossing between the two countries that has been closed since February 21 because of...

Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hardline policies, has died at age 97, his family announced. Thanin had become prime minister after a tumultuous three-year period of...

Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party took an initial step toward dissolving Thursday, in the latest sign of the Chinese territory’s narrowing space for civil society groups following Beijng’s crackdown on dissent. The Democratic Party’s central committee decided to set up a task force to look...

The secretary general of South Korea's National Election Commission defended the integrity of the country's elections on Tuesday amid claims by impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol that votes may have been compromised. Kim Yong-bin made his remarks while testifying at a hearing in Yoon's impeachment...

Indian security forces have killed at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in the forests of the central state of Chhattisgarh, police said, in its biggest encounter this year. Two security personnel were also killed while two others sustained injuries in the gun battle in Indravati area of Chhattisgarh...