Topic: Rodrigo Duterte

Benigno Aquino III, a longtime political figure who was president of the Philippines for six years, died of renal disease on Thursday after fighting health problems for more than a year. He was 61.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail or deport people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested it to investigate the Philippines for crimes committed by the state during its war on drugs that resulted in thousands of deaths.

The Visiting Forces Agreement keeping U.S. troops in the Philippines was extended on Monday for six more months.

On March 28, 1969, Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II hero and 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.

The Philippines began COVID-19 inoculations with vaccines donated by the Chinese government.

Brazil's coronavirus deaths and cases are surging amid slow vaccine administration to control the pandemic compared with other nations worldwide.

The Philippines has decided to postpone the termination of a bilateral defense agreement with the United States, as tensions with Beijing remain unresolved in the South China Sea.

A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in 2014 has been released from prison and deported from the Philippines.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday pardoned a U.S. Marine convicted in 2015 of killing a woman after he discovered she was transgender.