Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte raised the rhetoric over his bloody anti-crime war to a new level Friday, comparing it to Hitler and the Holocaust and saying he would be “happy to slaughter” 3 million addicts. Duterte issued his latest threat against drug dealers and users early Friday on returning to… Read More

At least 32 people were reported missing Thursday after rain-saturated hillsides collapsed onto villages in southeastern China following a typhoon. A rescue operation was underway in Sucun village in China’s Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, after it was hit by a landslide on Wednesday evening, leaving… Read More

At every corner of Israel’s tumultuous history, Shimon Peres was there. He was a young aide to the nation’s founding fathers when the country declared independence in 1948, and he played a key role in turning Israel into a military power. He was part of the negotiations that sealed the… Read More

Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday harshly criticized what it called a campaign to smear three priests murdered in less than a week by suggesting the victims had been involved in questionable behavior. The outrage came in response to a state prosecutor’s allegations that two of the dead clerics had… Read More

President Francois Hollande has bestowed a Legion of Honor award on a French-American who was among passengers who stopped a gunman on a high-speed train in 2015, and was wounded after grabbing his assault rifle. Mark Moogalian, 52, was honored on Thursday at the Elysee Palace. He was hospitalized when… Read More

Repair crews on Thursday worked to restore electricity to Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million people after a fire at a power plant blacked out the entire U.S. territory. The government canceled classes at public schools and universities, while hospitals canceled all elective surgeries and non-urgent appointments. The majority of government employees… Read More

President Bashar Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city’s rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, blaming the U.S. for the collapse of a cease-fire many had hoped would bring relief to the war-ravaged country…. Read More

The United States has warned its citizens to avoid Starbucks coffee shops and other businesses catering to Westerners in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. In a security warning sent to U.S. citizens Thursday, the U.S. Embassy said Turkish police were investigating a “terror cell” in… Read More