Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came under fire Saturday for making a second joke about rape, with Chelsea Clinton leading online outrage and a rights group branding his sense of humour ...

Human rights groups reacted this week with shock and outrage to a speech by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. Addressing a group of 200 surrendered ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a new joke about rape on Friday, saying he would congratulate a rapist who could carry out the crime even knowing he would die. The often-foul mouthed Duterte ...

MANILA, Philippines — Women’s rights groups assailed President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Friday, after he made a crass joke suggesting that rape was inevitable as long as there were ...

MANILA — Leading Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, whose campaign promises a ruthless war on crime, was angrily condemned on Sunday after a video surfaced of him joking about a ...

President Rodrigo Duterte has said his threat to pull the Philippines out of the United Nations for criticising his deadly crime war was just a “joke”, while attempting a light-hearted wordplay on ...

Statements by former president Rodrigo Duterte—which he and his allies have described as jokes—cannot be dismissed lightly when thousands of people were killed during the administration’s anti-drug ...