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Duterte in China: Xi lauds 'milestone' Duterte visit
China's President Xi Jinping has welcomed his Filipino counterpart Rodrigo Duterte on a visit to Beijing which he described as a "milestone". Mr Duterte arrived on Tuesday for a four-day trip expected to boost trade and mend ties between the nations.
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Duterte backtracks on Philippines' 'separation' with US
President Rodrigo Duterte has backtracked on his comments about the Philippines' "separation" from the United States, saying severing of ties was not in the best interest of his country.
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Russia is making friends with America's newest enemy
Russia’s ambassador to the Philippines has said Moscow is ready to discuss an all-encompassing partnership with president Rodrigo Duterte, after he announced his country was “separating” from the United States. Igor Khovaev confirmed the Russian government was willing to provide diplomatic assistance to the Philippines in “any area, any field of possible cooperation”, adding that the two countries “deserve to know each other much, much better”.
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Philippines senator calls for Duterte to face crimes against humanity inquiry
A leading member of the Philippines’ senate has called for an international criminal investigation into the country’s president in an effort to stop a vicious war on drugs that has killed more than 3,800 people since June. Senator Leila de Lima, a human rights advocate and former justice secretary, has told the Guardian that foreign intervention was the only hope of putting an end to “state-inspired” extrajudicial murders that have terrorised parts of the population since president Rodrigo Duterte came to power four months ago.
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Duterte warns end to US defence pact during Japan visit
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has arrived in Japan for three-day of talks, but the first day of his visit was overshadowed by his rants against the United States, calling Americans "foolish" while threatening to cut off a 2014 defence pact with Washington DC. "The Americans are really a bully," for chastising him over his deadly war on drugs, Duterte told a crowd of Filipinos in Tokyo. He called it "demeaning" for the US to hint at cutting aid and assistance to the Philippines on human rights grounds, saying, "You can have it. It's all yours. We will survive."
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Philippines president says he may keep US weapons, calls US officials 'monkeys'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he'll consider continuing to acquire weapons and defense equipment from treaty ally the United States if his military recommends so, despite offers from China and Russia. Duterte made the remark in a speech in which he again railed at the U.S. with expletives for criticizing his deadly anti-drug crackdown, calling American officials "monkeys" and breaking a promise that he would no longer resort to trash talk.
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Philippines' Duterte describes Western threats of ICC indictment as 'bullshit'
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NSFW ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.
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5,900 die in 'war on drugs' in Philippines
There have been 5,927 deaths linked to the "war on drugs" in the Philippines since July 1 according to statistics released by the national police on Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte was elected to office in May on a platform of cracking down on crime, particularly illegal drugs.
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UN rights chief calls for murder investigation into Duterte claims
The UN human rights chief has asked Philippine authorities to launch a murder investigation after the president, Rodrigo Duterte, claimed to have killed people in the past, and to examine the “appalling epidemic of extrajudicial killings” committed during his anti-drug crackdown. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said the country’s judicial authorities “must demonstrate their commitment to upholding the rule of law and their independence from the executive” by investigating the president.
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Philippines Braces for Super Typhoon on Christmas Day
US military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center says Nock-Ten is super typhoon with winds of up to 240 kph (150 mph) late Christmas Eve local time (1200 GMT), though it was expected to weaken before landfall
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Duterte Publicly Admits He Threw A Man Out Of A Helicopter
The president of the Philippines made his second murder confession in a month Tuesday. President Rodrigo Duterte claimed he threw a kidnapper out of a helicopter mid-flight during his tenure as mayor of Davao. The president’s statements were intended as a warning to corrupt officials, reports the Philippine Star. “If you are corrupt, I will fetch you with a helicopter and I will throw you out on the way to Manila,” Duterte explained. “I have done it before, why should I not do it again?”
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'They are connected with the CIA': Philippine president accuses US ambassadors of being 'spies'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte derided U.S. ambassadors as "spies" on Thursday, responding to a media report of an alleged American plot to destabilize his government, a job he said some envoys were appointed solely to do. The volatile former mayor said though had received no intelligence reports of any U.S. plan to undermine his presidency, he believed most ambassadors were in cahoots with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which had a track record of meddling in other countries' affairs.
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Duterte: Obama an intellectual who shouldn't have become president
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday once again took shots at Barack Obama, dismissing the United States President as an "intellectual" who had no business being in politics. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila, regions and exclusive special investigative reports.
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Duterte to mayors on 'final' drug list: Resign or die
President Rodrigo Duterte plans to confront mayors who are on his final list of suspected drug personalities, and warn them to resign and abandon their drug trade, or face death. He was giving a speech during the oath-taking ceremony of over 200 appointees. "Either you resign or make a clean break of everything, come up with clean nose and we'll talk," he added.
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‘Molested when we confessed’: Duterte fires up at Catholic priests over pedophilia, corruption
Unshaken by a blessing from Pope Francis, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has hit back at priests and bishops critical of his war on drugs, accusing clergymen of homosexuality, child molesting, hypocrisy and corruption. “You asked for it,” he said. “You expose me, fine. I expose you. Why? When you commit mistakes it's OK, but when we do, no? Bullshit. That’s stupid,” the president said during a speech to newly-promoted police officers at Malacañan on Thursday.
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Murderous Manila
On the Night Shift. By James Fenton.
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Duterte's war on drugs has created "an economy of murder" in the Philippines, says Amnesty International
President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs in the Philippines has created incentives to kill and “an economy of murder,” according to a new report by Amnesty International. More than 7,000 drug-related killings have taken place in the nation since Duterte came to power seven months ago. According to an officer who spoke to the rights group, police are paid $160 to $300 extra in cash—secretly, back at headquarters—for each extrajudicial execution disguised as a legitimate operation. They receive no bonus for mere arrests, however.
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Shanty town fire in Philippines leaves 15,000 homeless
A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and leaving 15,000 people homeless, authorities in the Philippine capital said on Wednesday. Seven people were injured in fire that broke out late on Tuesday night and raged for 10 hours as it spread rapidly, engulfing more than 1,000 makeshift houses, fire officer Edilberto Cruz told reporters. About 15,000 people were left homeless and were temporarily sheltered in evacuation centers...
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Duterte targets Philippine children in bid to widen drug war
Before Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs had even begun, allies of the Philippines president were quietly preparing for a wider offensive. On June 30, as Duterte was sworn in, they introduced a bill into the Philippine Congress that could allow children as young as nine to be targeted in a crackdown that has since claimed more than 7,600 lives. The bill proposes to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9 years old to prevent what it calls "the pampering of youthful offenders who commit crimes knowing they can get away with it."
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