MANILA / AP The United States said on Sunday that it would work with the Philippine president to address any concerns after he threatened to terminate a pact that allows US troops to visit the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte was enraged after a US government aid agency deferred a vote on a renewal of a major development assistance package ...

  Jakarta/ AFP Thirteen people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in the east of the country on Sunday, officials said, marking yet another air accident for the armed forces. The Hercules C-130 plane took off from Timika city in Papua province carrying 12 crew and one passenger, but came down in a remote mountainous region shortly before ...

  Moscow / AFP Four armed “bandits” were killed and two wounded in a shootout following an attack on police in the capital of Russia’s Chechnya region, strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said. Regional boss Kadyrov said a “group of armed people” attacked a police officer and stole his car in the capital Grozny late Saturday. A shootout erupted as law ...