The former Philippine president becomes the first Asian head of state committed to stand trial at the International Criminal Court, charged with crimes against humanity for a drug war that killed thousands.
For the first time, a Taiwanese president has been forced to cancel an overseas trip after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoked overflight permits under Chinese pressure — a move Washington calls an 'intimidation campaign' and experts say signals Beijing's tightening grip on African nations.
A Salvadoran court is trying 486 alleged MS-13 members in a single proceeding over 47,000 crimes. The emergency powers that made it possible have suspended the right to legal defense.
US warships are intercepting Iranian tankers off the coasts of Malaysia, India, and Sri Lanka — thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf. The maritime war now has two fronts, and neither side is backing down.
Navy Secretary John Phelan was discussing shipbuilding budgets at a conference on Tuesday. By Wednesday, he was gone — 'effective immediately' — while three carrier strike groups enforce a blockade of Iranian ports during a fragile ceasefire.
For decades, the Communist Party has played managed opposition in Putin's parliament. This week, its leader stood on the Duma floor and warned of revolution — because the war economy is cracking.
Iran fired on three ships and seized two of them in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, hours after Trump extended a ceasefire Tehran never accepted. Brent crude broke $100.
A Chinese naval flotilla transited the Yonaguni-Iriomote Waterway on Wednesday, returning from Western Pacific exercises — the second such passage in four days and another step in a pattern that Tokyo increasingly views as a deliberate test of will.
Russia bombed its own pipeline through Ukraine. Now Kyiv has to fix it — and resume pumping Russian crude to two EU holdouts — to unlock a €90 billion loan nearly equal to its entire national budget.
Defense Minister Koizumi says 'a number of countries' are already inquiring about Japanese weapons. Seventy-nine years after renouncing war, Japan is preparing to sell the arms it spent decades building.
The Trump administration is discussing resettlement in the DRC for Afghans who aided US forces — a country with 8.2 million displaced people of its own. Advocates say the offer is designed to be refused.
Mexican President Sheinbaum says no one told her about CIA operatives raiding drug labs on Mexican soil. Chihuahua officials first confirmed the raid, then rewrote the story. Now federal prosecutors are investigating a possible constitutional breach.
Trump extended the ceasefire because Iran's government is 'seriously fractured' — too divided to send a delegation. Meanwhile, Iranian-linked tankers are still moving through the Strait of Hormuz despite a blockade the US calls airtight.
As of May 1, Russia will no longer allow Kazakh crude to transit the Druzhba pipeline to Germany. The oil belongs to Kazakhstan. The pipeline does not.
The US-Iran ceasefire expires within hours. No deal is in sight. The Strait of Hormuz is shut, 500 million barrels of oil are gone, and Beijing is amplifying Tehran's claims that American networking equipment contains secret backdoors.
An Israeli soldier takes a sledgehammer to the head of a statue of Jesus, in a Christian village where residents chose to stay during the war. The IDF confirmed the photo is authentic — and the fallout has reached from the Latin Patriarchate to the US ambassador's office.
The country whose constitution renounces war forever just authorized selling fighter jets, missiles, and destroyers to 17 nations. Beijing calls it a return to militarism.
A Canadian tourist is dead and at least six others wounded after a gunman opened fire at Teotihuacán — Mexico's first armed violence at an archaeological site in decades. The World Cup arrives in seven weeks.
Russia published a list of European drone manufacturers — including their addresses — and warned they were 'potential targets.' Berlin summoned Moscow's envoy and declared: we will not be intimidated.
Japan's meteorological agency says there is a 1 percent chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the coming days — ten times the normal risk. A nation that lost 22,000 people to its last mega-quake is checking its go-bags.
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