Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said he would declare a “crisis” in transportation and criminality to address the longstanding problems plaguing commuters and citizens who are wary of their safety. Duterte said a crisis has to be declared as the government is trying to fight the problems “on so many fronts” despite limited resources
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) remained divergent on Japan's appeal for enlarging public spending to boost global economic growth, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday after their discussion on global economy.
Domestic and foreign experts on South Korea's economy expressed worry about possible financial crisis happening here amid rising concerns about potential financial distress of local companies, a central bank survey showed Monday.
The RBI governor has said that the world was facing a problem of productivity slowdown due to government inability to put firms "out of their misery" and also due to protection provided to oligopolistic firms.
The EU summit on Thursday and Friday aims to reach a new, upgraded agreement with Turkey to tackle the migration crisis, the EU said Wednesday.
The Syria crisis, which is going to brace for its 5th anniversary on Tuesday, has become the most lasting and influential hotspot in the second decade of this century, bringing catastrophic consequences to the country and its people and profoundly affecting the surrounding areas and the wider world.
European Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday said he would talk with Turkey's leader to boost the cooperation to deal over the migration crisis later this week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday agreed to meet on Jan. 20 in Zurich, Switzerland, over international issues including Syrian crisis.
In 2013, a ghastly video appeared online, showing a man, said to be a well-known rebel fighter, carves into the body of a government soldier and cuts out his heart and liver.
The European Union (EU) leaders called for urgent actions to cope with the migrant crisis late Thursday and agreed to adopt position on a controversial border guard package in six months.
The year 2015 has seen the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World World II, as exodus of migrants from war-torn Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been flocking to the continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended on Monday her refugee policy, promising to reduce the refugee influx through effective measures and calling for a sustainable and lasting solution to the current refugee crisis.
A humanitarian crisis looms in Indonesia as the prolonged dry spell, coupled with waterbombing aircraft getting nowhere near fires seething deep below peatlands, all but ended any hope of a real respite from the haze in the weeks ahead.
One of Italy's oldest problems, organized crime, is making its newest major international challenge -- the growing migrant crisis -- harder to handle, experts say.
When Europe pulls a long face amid a tidal wave of refugees, it is high time for its cross-ocean ally, the United States, to abandon its "wait-and-see" attitude and take concrete actions to solve the acute crisis.
Thailand's National Reform Council (NRC) on Sunday voted 135: 105, with 7 abstentions, to reject a 124-page draft constitution.
German opposition politicians have blamed western countries for being the main cause of the current refugee crisis that Europe is grappling with.
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