US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a “son of a whore”. Mr 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 Philippine leader, ... Read More »

Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th president of the Philippines on Monday when a joint session of Congress declared him winner of a May 9 election, succeeding Benigno Aquino who steps down next month after six years in office. The tough-talking Duterte, mayor of Davao City in the south, campaigned on ... Read More »

Manila – A leading candidate to become president of the Philippines was under fire Sunday for apparently joking about the rape of a murdered Australian missionary. Rodrigo Duterte, who has been mayor of the southern city of Davao since 1988, made the remarks at a campaign rally, a video of which was ... Read More »