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President Duterte, speaking in a country that is a staunch United States ally and hosts 50,000 American troops, said on Wednesday he wants his country to be free of foreign troops, possibly within two years.
SAN ANTONIO—The Los Angeles Clippers have played seven games in the last 11 days, their defense seemingly always lagging back in whatever time zone they have left behind.
HAVANA—Cuban President Raul Castro sent a blunt message to Washington on Saturday as the White House works to reverse a half-century of hostility between the US and Cuba: Don’t expect détente to do away with the communist system.
LONDON—No one said the recovery from the global financial crisis would be easy and 2014 provided that in spades. While the US economy—the world’s largest—is showing clear signs that its recovery is self-sustaining, the picture elsewhere is far less rosy entering 2015.
SYDNEY—An Australian woman was charged with murder on Sunday in the deaths of seven of her children and her niece, whose bodies were found inside her home, police said.
NEW YORK—The price of oil has fallen by nearly half in just six months, a surprising and steep plunge that has consumers cheering, producers howling and economists wringing their hands over whether this is a good or bad thing.
Catholics around the world celebrate Virgen de Guadalupe, also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe, each year on December 12. It is said that, in 1531, an image of the Virgin Mary, a young woman surrounded by light, appeared to an indigenous peasant named Juan Diego outside Mexico City.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (Dfa) on Monday responded to China’s allegation that the Philippines is putting pressure on Beijing before an international arbitral tribunal over disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
WINDERMERE, Florida—Jordan Spieth flew from Japan to Australia to Dallas the last two weeks, took a day off and then came over to Florida for the Hero World Challenge.
WASHINGTON—Republicans will hold at least 246 seats in the House of Representatives in January, a commanding majority that matched the post-World War II high of the Truman administration.
BAGHDAD—“Learn how to drive!” a driver bellowed from his car. But Hassan Khudier just weaved through the bumper-to-bumper traffic on his motorbike. Angry drivers are among the lesser worries when you’re a delivery guy in Baghdad.
KABUL, Afghanistan—The United States will keep about 1,000 more troops in Afghanistan than planned early next year to fill a temporary North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) troop gap in the new mission to train and advise Afghan security forces, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday on his final visit to this war-weary country as Pentagon chief.
MILWAUKEE—Houston’s James Harden scored 19 points in the decisive third quarter en route to a game-leading 34, which helped the Rockets to a 117-103 victory at the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday.
CAIRO—An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed charges against Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, who had been charged in connection with the killings of hundreds of demonstrators against his rule.
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama moved on Thursday to halt deportations for nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants, defying congressional Republicans who called his unilateral action an affront to the constitutional separation of powers.
MARRAKECH, Morocco—The US is promoting entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa as a way to create jobs and counter extremism in the region, senior American officials said on Thursday at a conference in Morocco.
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping sought to play down points of tension between their two nations on Wednesday, unveiling a flurry of agreements on climate change, military cooperation and trade, while casting their own burgeoning relationship as candid and productive.
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