A grand ceremony took place at the Philippine International Convention Centre in Manila yesterday to celebrate the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
At least 31 fishermen have been killed by Boko Haram jihadists in two separate attacks on islands in Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, fishermen and vigilantes fighting the Islamists said late Monday.
The US-led coalition campaign to destroy the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria enters its fourth year this week, and the Pentagon believes the jihadists' defeat is inevitable.
Japan faces an increasing threat from North Korea's development of longer-range ballistic missiles and feels more concern about China's expanding military activities at sea and in the air, according to its annual defense report released on Tuesday.
Spain will call for a eurozone budget and finance minister to oversee it at an August 28 summit with France, Germany and Italy, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday.
Average US temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report cited by The New York Times on Tuesday.
Spain will not make its recovery of Gibraltar a condition in the Brexit taks, its foreign minister said in an interview on Sunday that could ease tensions over the disputed British territory.
Top diplomats of the two Koreas met on the sidelines of a regional forum in Manila, the South's Yonhap news agency reports today, citing an official from Seoul's foreign ministry.
Other countries should put themselves in Filipino shoes while considering the nation’s foreign policy twists and turns, says Alan Cayetano, Foreign Secretary of the Philippines.
Syed Hamid Albar*
Former Foreign Minister, Malaysia
By Ong Keng Yong *
Executive Deputy Chairman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Retno L. P. Marsudi*
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Indonesia
Roberto F. de Ocampo*
Former Finance Secretary, Philippines
In the context of growing rivalries between major world powers, ASEAN needs to demonstrate strong political will and unity to promote peace, security and prosperity, foreign policy experts said on Friday.
A senior Islamic State commander directed a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney, with a second poisonous gas plot also in the works, police alleged Friday.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury to investigate Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday -- a step toward possible criminal indictments.
Chile's Congress on Wednesday eased a strict ban on abortion in effect since the final days of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship nearly three decades ago.
