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Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as president of the Philippines, with some hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he will undercut one of Asia's liveliest democracies amid threats to kill criminals en masse.

The Philippines' new vice president Leni Robredo was sworn into office Thursday with a promise to bring prosperity to Filipinos on the fringes of society.

Soccer great Diego Maradona is urging fellow Argentines to leave Lionel Messi alone over the current star's decision to retire from Argentina's national team following its loss to Chile in the Copa America championship match.

A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian citizen to death for heroin trafficking.

The opposition Mongolian People's Party has won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections in the landlocked nation where a fall in commodity prices has sent the economy into a sharp decline.

A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.

Congo's president says nothing can stop long-awaited elections from taking place even as fears mount of a possible delay.

The Malian military says a convoy came under attack not far from the town of Timbuktu in the country's volatile north.

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Haiti's fragmented Parliament failed again Wednesday to decide what to do about the caretaker president whose term has expired but remains in office in the absence of a vote resolving the latest leadership disorder.

The president of Suriname has again moved to prevent authorities in the South American nation from putting him on trial for the killings of 15 political opponents in 1982.

Mexican authorities say the former assistant prosecutor of Baja California Sur state has been assassinated just a few months after he was fired for alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.

The 45 minutes my bride and I spent hiding in a beauty salon closet at Ataturk airport passed like an eternity, as the sound of gunfire and bullets ricocheting through the concourse outside echoed in our ears.

Islamic State (ISIS) militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, in a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants' transit link between the two countries, a rebel spokesman said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has apologized to high school students over the leaking of national exams.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has defended the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, which sparked the largest protests of his presidency and was declared unconstitutional last week.

The coordinated massacre at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport came into clearer focus Wednesday as officials revealed a more detailed timeline of the terror attack that killed 42 and wounded 238.

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria says there's just not enough agreement yet to resume peace talks ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline to start a political transition.

The data recorder of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month indicates there was smoke on board the aircraft, investigators said Wednesday.

Egyptian investigators say wreckage from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May shows "signs of damage because of high temperature" and a flight data recorder indicates there was smoke on board.