Phillipines

The newly appointed ambassador to the UN cites Nazi-era economic and social reforms in part to defend a deadly crackdown on drug users and peddlers.

Two UN human rights experts criticized the country's war on drugs.

A string of threatening posts allegedly offered an online video tutorial on how to assemble a suicide belt.

ISIS terrorists in the Philippines have carried out attacks against the Philippine army previously, but this is the first time ISIS' "Philippine province" has claimed responsibility for an attack.

The Manila Times says it received a copy of a Saudi dispatch to Filipino authorities indicating that plan has reached an "advanced stage."

Philippines Ambassador to Israel Nathaniel G. Imperial spoke at a commemorative event at Yad Vashem on Tuesday.

In the late 1930s, Philippine president, along with US High Commissioner McNutt and the Frieder brothers authorized the admission of some 1,300 European Jewish refugees who had fled from the Nazis.

The rebels are waiting for government to set up a new Muslim autonomous government in the south.

In addition to the familiar coconut products – grated coconut, coconut milk, coconut oil and coconut water – the locals produce coconut vinegar, coconut sap sugar and frozen coconut puree.

Says world has to "learn how to cry" over their fate.