The United Nations says the Philippines must serve out a one-year notice period to leave the International Criminal Court, thwarting President Rodrigo Duterte’s bid to walk out immediately over the court’s examination of alleged crimes against humanity in the country.
The strongman leader has rejected international criticism of his bloody war on drugs, feuding with the U.S. and Western institutions like the European Union over the issue. Instead, he has favored a stronger relationship with China—which has been noncritical...