The Philippines pledged a warm welcome for China's leader Xi Jinping at an economic summit in Manila next week, officials said Tuesday, despite a bitter row over disputed islands.

President Benigno Aquino and Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario made the pledge in rare talks with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is in Manila on a working visit ahead of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

A Chinese newspaper linked to the ruling Communist Party warned Myanmar Tuesday not to leave its embrace for the U.S., as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party was slated to wrest power from the military-backed government.

Beijing was Yangon's closest ally during the later years of military rule, providing a shield from international opprobrium and a lifeline as a trading partner for the junta.

The shy children from a dog-eared photograph found in the pocket of a migrant drowned off Italy may never know what happened to the man who might have been their father.

Putting names to those who die while crossing the Mediterranean to Europe is a huge challenge for forensic scientists, with clues sometimes limited to no more than a scar or a solitary tatoo.

Once bustling with sinewy young men like any other farming village in rural Mali, Kodjan is starting to look distinctly grey.

Little by little, the demographics of the settlement are altering as its youth join the exodus of African migrants looking for a better life in Europe.

A weekend of violence killed at least 16 people in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero as shootings erupted at a cockfight and a football field, police said Monday.

Twelve people were killed, including two minors, and five others were wounded when a gunfight erupted between armed civilians at Sunday night's cockfight in Cuajinicuilapa, the state prosecutor's office said.

A winnowed crop of eight candidates takes the stage Tuesday for the next Republican U.S. presidential debate, with surging outsider Ben Carson's tumultuous backstory under the microscope and Jeb Bush fighting for his political life.

The showdown in Milwaukee, Wisconsin comes two and a half months before the first state-wide votes in the primary process to determine which Republican and which Democrat will square off in the November 2016 election that determines who succeeds Barack Obama in the White House.

Seven presidential candidates in Haiti called Monday for an independent investigation of "fraudulent" initial vote results.

Jovenel Moise, backed by President Michel Martelly, drew 32 percent of the ballots October 25, followed by Jude Celestin, of the Lapeh party, with 25 percent, according to the official results.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday congratulated his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on recent elections that extended the Turkish president's term in office.

Days before traveling to Turkey for a G20 summit, Obama spoke to Erdogan to "congratulate the Turkish people on the November 1 elections" and discuss the summit, the White House said.

Prime Minister David Cameron warned Tuesday that Britain could leave the EU if it does not get the reforms it wants before a "once-in-a-generation" referendum to settle its troubled relationship with Europe.

In a major speech outlining Britain's demands for change following pressure from EU leaders, Cameron warned he was ready to "think again" about Britain's membership if he could not strike a deal with Brussels and the bloc's 27 other member states.

Australian police used tear gas to put down a two-day riot at a migrant detention center Tuesday, where detainees, reportedly armed with machetes, chainsaws and petrol bombs, were running amok.

Reinforcements were sent to the remote Christmas Island facility after violence erupted and fires were set in a protest triggered late Sunday by the unexplained death of a man.