Brussels / AFP Belgium on Monday began the trial of seven alleged extremists accused of links to the terror cell behind the Paris and Brussels attacks. The men were arrested after a deadly raid in the Belgian town of Verviers in January 2015 which exposed an alleged plan to kill police officers. A further nine people who are still …

  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 …