Manila / AFP Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was heading on Monday for a huge win the Philippine presidential elections, according to a poll monitor, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals. Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, had hypnotised millions with his vows of brutal but quick solutions to the nation’s ...

  BUCHAREST / AP Romania’s defense minister says three Afghan citizens have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of two Romanian soldiers and the injury of a third. Defense Minister Mihnea Motoc said on Monday that the Romanians were training Afghan police officers on Saturday morning near Kandahar when two men wearing Afghan police uniforms who were “probably ...

  MOGADISHU / AP A suicide car bomber struck the entrance of Somalia’s traffic police headquarters in the capital on Monday , killing four people and injuring nine others, said a police official. Two police officers were among the dead and two armed extremists who tried to storm the traffic police premises in Mogadishu’s Abdiaziz district were also shot dead, ...