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This photograph shared by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in his Twitter account shows President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump holding bilateral talks as the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Other Related Meetings kicked off on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017.
A meeting between US President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on Monday follows a stormy 16 months in their nations’ decades-long alliance. Here are five things to know about relations between the United States and one of its oldest allies in Asia. Former colony The Philippines went from centuries of Spanish rule to becoming a US colony in 1898 under the Treaty of Paris that was signed to end the Spanish-American war. The colonial period […]
President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to sit down with US President Donald Trump on Monday. The US president is in Manila with leaders of 18 other nations for two days of summits, the final leg of a headline-grabbing Asian tour dominated by the North Korean nuclear crisis. Allegations of Russian meddling in last year’s US presidential elections also hounded the second half of his 12-day trip, which took him from Japan to South Korea, China […]
This photo shared by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in his Twitter account shows President Rodrigo Duterte with his common-law wife Honeylet Avanceña and US President Donald Trump during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gala dinner.
President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he was “sure” Donald Trump would not raise human rights concerns when they meet in Manila, after the US President praised himself his drug war. Trump is due to land in the Philippines on Sunday evening ahead of two days of summits. According to Duterte, Trump had already given him “words of encouragement” during a brief encounter on the sidelines of another regional summit in Vietnam on Saturday. “He said […]
In this photo courtesy of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, US President Donald Trump is seen talking to President Rodrigo Duterte from afar during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he would talk to United States President Donald Trump about three things: trade, extremism and terrorism, and the South China Sea. Duterte made the revelation when asked by a reporter at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport prior to his departure for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vietnam. After the APEC summit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit will be held in the Philippines. […]
by Jennie MATTHEW / Thomas Urbain in Paterson Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The Uzbek immigrant behind New York’s worst attack in 16 years confessed to acting in the name of the Islamic State group and “felt good” about the killings, having planned an assault for a year, investigators said Wednesday. The shocking details emerged after federal agents questioned Sayfullo Saipov in a Manhattan hospital, injured with a police bullet to the abdomen after […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend the East Asia Summit next month, standing in for US President Donald Trump. President Trump will however attend the gala dinner for the 50th anniversary of the Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) on November 12. Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said that President Trump will also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vietnam also in […]
by Thomas Watkins Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Donald Trump was snarled in fresh controversy Wednesday after he was accused of being disrespectful to a US soldier slain in an ambush in Niger, as well as showing insensitivity to the grieving family. Trump moved quickly to dispute descriptions of his conversation with the pregnant widow of Sergeant La David Johnson, 25, who was one of four US service members killed in a jihadist ambush […]
by Kelly Macnamara Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – US President Donald Trump is “mentally deranged” and will “pay dearly” for his threat to destroy North Korea, Kim Jong-Un said Friday, as his foreign minister hinted the regime may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. In a rare personal attack published hours after Washington announced tougher sanctions, the North Korean leader took aim at Trump over his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly in […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – It’s been dubbed the Super Bowl of diplomacy, the Oscars of world statesmanship: the UN General Assembly kicks off on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump in the spotlight as he makes his first address to the 193-nation body. Here are a few fun facts about this year’s gathering: Who’s coming There are 90 heads of state, five vice presidents, 39 heads of government, three deputy prime ministers and 52 ministers. At […]
