US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a “son of a whore”. Duterte was responding to the US president’s promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting. The latest Duterte outburst came ...
Pressure mounted on Gabon’s President Ali Bongo on Tuesday over his disputed poll victory as his justice minister resigned over the results and former colonial ruler France suggested a recount. With Bongo claiming victory by a wafer-thin margin of some 6,000 votes, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls proposed recounting the ...