Malacanang yesterday said President Rodrigo Duterte has no links with the businessman who filed a cyber-libel case against Rappler chief executive officer and journalist Maria Ressa.

A Swedish student who livestreamed her protest against the deportation of an Afghan asylum-seeker last year has been found guilty of violating Sweden’s aviation laws and fined £250.

Four opinion polls published since Spain’s prime minister called a general election for April 28 have predicted widely different outcomes, illustrating how the emergence of new parties, and in particular the far-right Vox, has upset political forecasting.

Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new regulator to protect democracy and citizens’ rights, lawmakers said yesterday.

Seven Labour lawmakers quit yesterday over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Britain’s main opposition party had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left”.

The justice secretary has said he wants to end short prison sentences because they do not work and hopes that technology and more community sentences will provide better alternatives to jail.

The United States has blocked efforts by a UN agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its airspace to foreign flights, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Leaders of Thailand’s biggest opposition party campaigning yesterday never mentioned ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose policies they espouse, nor the princess whose shock candidacy could see its ally banned from the March 24 election.

Five European lawmakers who were expelled from Venezuela yesterday said they would try to re-enter the country via Colombia along with a shipment of humanitarian aid sent by the US.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday he had ordered the police and military to be “ruthless” with vote-riggers, as preparations were made for rescheduled elections.

Gathered under the spreading baobab tree in Danoa town square, farmers and herders in a remote corner of Ivory Coast are finally talking about a dispute that has poisoned relations and destroyed lives.

Islamabad should be ordered to immediately free an Indian man sentenced to death for alleged spying in Pakistan, India’s lawyers told the UN’s top court yesterday, saying his military trial was a “farcical case” based on “malicious propaganda”.