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Singapore has replaced Japan for having the world’s most powerful passport, allowing visa-free entry to 192 global destinations,

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By Kylie MacLellan and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's highly contested plan to make it easier

The US, the European Commission, Japan, South Korea and Australia are collaborating to limit methane emissions from liquefied

US climate envoy John Kerry was resolute as he sat across from his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has appointed a temporary replacement for finance minister Alejandro Zelaya who has taken

The family of a Brit missing in Switzerland say they will do everything they can to find him.

GENEVA The heatwave engulfing the northern hemisphere is set to intensify this week, causing overnight temperatures to surge

KUALA LUMPUR Chinese car maker Geely will invest $10 billion to develop Malaysia's main auto-making hub, state news

Ukraine and Russia accused each other of overnight drone attacks hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed revenge

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Tuesday that an investigation into the Philippines' so-called “war on drugs” can resume, rejecting Manila’s objections to the case going ahead at the global court. The court’s investigation was suspended in late 2021 after the Philippines said it was already probing the same allegations and argued that the ICC — a court of last resort — therefore didn’t have jurisdiction. The Philippines launched its appeal after judges in January agreed with the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, that deferring the investigation to Manila was “not warranted.” At the time, judges ruled that the domestic proceedings did not amount to “tangible, concrete and progressive investigative steps in a way that would sufficiently mirror the court’s investigation.” At a hearing Tuesday, Presiding Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut said that the five-judge appeals panel, in a majority decision, agreed and rejected the Philippines' appeal. More than 6,000 suspects, most of them people who lived in poverty, have been killed in the crackdown on drug crime, according to government pronouncements. Human rights groups say the death toll is considerably higher and should include many unsolved killings by motorcycle-riding gunmen who may have been deployed by police. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has defended the crackdown as “lawfully directed against drug lords and pushers who have for many years destroyed the present generation, especially the youth.” Duterte withdrew the Philippines from The Hague-based court in 2019 in a move rights activists said was an attempt to evade accountability and prevent an international probe into thousands of killings in his campaign against illegal drugs. However, the ICC still has jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed when the country was still a member state of the court. The current Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., said last year that Manila has no plan to rejoin the ICC, a decision that supports his predecessor’s stance but rejects the wishes of human rights activists.

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