Tokyo/ AFP Japan’s premier Shinzo Abe headed to New York on Thursday for talks with Donald Trump, the first leader to meet with the president-elect whose campaign pledges provoked anxiety over US foreign policy. The brash billionaire is set to receive Abe at his Trump Tower headquarters on Thursday evening, in an encounter that will be closely watched for hints …

  Davao / AFP Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to follow in Russia’s footsteps on Thursday and pull his country out of the International Criminal Court, incensed at foreign criticism of his deadly drug war. Russia formally withdrew its signature to the ICC’s founding Rome Statute on Wednesday, calling the tribunal’s work “one-sided and inefficient”. Speaking in his home town …

  Paris /AFP Donald Trump’s election looms large over the race for president of America’s oldest ally France, where mainstream candidates all style themselves as uniquely qualified to prevent a similar upset by the far right. On Thursday evening, right-wing candidates was expected to take part in the last of three debates ahead of the first round on Sunday of …