The United States said the Philippine government had not officially communicated President Rodrigo Duterte’s demand to pull US military advisers out of southern Philippines. Since 2002, up to 600 US advisers have been deployed in the Mindanao region to train troops battling extremist rebels but their numbers have been scaled ...
Severe flooding in a North Korean border region has killed at least 133 people with another 395 missing and thousands of homes swept away, the UN says, after Pyongyang reported “great hardship” in the area. Some 107,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the area along the ...