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Philippine Police File Criminal Complaints Against Vice President Duterte

Criminal complaints, threats of assassination, and escalating conflict between Sara Duterte and Marcos families in the Philippines.

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Philippine VP's Bodyguards Swapped Out Amid Investigation

Philippine security forces said Wednesday they had replaced Vice President Sara Duterte's bodyguards, days after the justice department launched a probe into her alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos.

International Business Times

Philippine police file criminal complaints against VP Sara Duterte and her security aides

Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for disobeying orders from authorities in a recent altercation in Congress

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Feud between Marcos and Duterte families distracts from suffering of typhoon-hit Philippines

Politics in the Philippines is beset by clan rivalry at the best of times – but recent events have well and truly blown the lid off a box of snakes. A vice-president making assassination threats towards her own president, while the country reels from its sixth typhoon in a month.…

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Philippine Political Crisis: Feud Between President And Vice President

Political feud in the Philippines between President Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte tests democracy and raises concerns about the nation's future.

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Philippine VP Duterte denies assassination plot against President Marcos Jr

Relations between powerful vice president and president continue to deteriorate, as investigators summon Duterte.

Al Jazeera

Philippine VP Denies Assassination Plot Against Marcos

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday denied she was plotting to kill President Ferdinand Marcos, saying her comments that sparked a government probe only reflected "consternation" with her one-time ally.

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Philippine VP Duterte 'Mastermind' Of Assassination Plot: Justice Department

The Philippines justice department on Monday labelled Vice President Sara Duterte the "mastermind" of a plot to assassinate the country's president, giving her five days to respond to a subpoena.

International Business Times

Philippine Vice President Insists Her Threat to Assassinate the President Was 'Taken Out of Logical Context'

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr stated that he found the threats levied against him by his former running mate, Vice President Sara Duterte, to be "troubling" after Duterte received backlash for placing a conditional hit on Marcos, an action she has attempted to defend herself for.

Latin Times

Philippines VP Threatens To Assassinate President And First Lady, Echoing Her Father's Brutal Legacy

Rodrigo Duterte's violent legacy persists as his daughter, VP Sara Duterte, threatens to kill President Marcos, the First Lady and the House Speaker.

International Business Times UK

Philippines VP Sara Duterte publicly threatens to have president assassinated

Philippine vice president says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed

The Independent UK

Philippine VP Made 'Active Threat' On Marcos' Life: Palace

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' security detail has been put on alert over what his office is calling an "active threat" against his life by Vice President Sara Duterte, the palace said Saturday.

International Business Times

Philippines says it will cooperate if ICC seeks Duterte's custody over drug killings

The Philippine government says its law enforcement agencies will be obliged to cooperate if the International Criminal Court seeks the custody of former President Rodrigo Duterte as part of an investigation into thousands of deaths during his crackdown on illegal drugs

The Independent UK

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it

The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge for problems both real and imagined, says author and Salvage founder Richard Seymour

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Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ in the Philippines – explained in 30 seconds

The former president faces an investigation by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity over the alleged extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug suspects

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Former President Duterte Faces Criticism In Senate Inquiry

Former President Duterte's Senate inquiry reveals denial of extrajudicial killings, sparking international scrutiny and political tensions.

The Independent UK

Former Philippines president admits to keeping ‘death squad’ in war on drugs

He asked police officers to ‘encourage’ suspects to fight back so that officers could justify the slayings, Rodrigo Duterte told the committee

The Independent UK

Duterte’s jarring testimony into drug killings in Philippines relives a nightmare for many

The cockiness, expletives and threats unleashed by former President Rodrigo Duterte in a Senate inquiry brought back the nightmare of the bloody “war on drugs” for many families of the thousands of victims who were gunned down under his rule

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Former Philippine President Duterte Admits To Maintaining Death Squad

Former Philippine President Duterte admits to 'death squad' but denies police killings. Senate inquiry probes drug-related deaths during his presidency.

Al Jazeera

Philippines ex-President Duterte says he kept a ‘death squad’ as mayor

The former president admits he had instructed policemen to ‘encourage’ suspects to fight back to justify their killings.

The Independent UK

Philippine ex-President Duterte says he kept a 'death squad' as mayor to kill criminals

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told a Senate inquiry that he had maintained a “death squad” of criminals to kill other criminals when he was mayor of a southern Philippine city

The Guardian - UK

Duterte tells Philippines ‘war on drugs’ inquiry he kept a death squad

Ex-president says he kept criminals to kill other criminals while mayor and offers no apologies at hearing investigating crackdowns

The Guardian - UK

Philippines vice-president: I’ll dig up president’s father and throw him in sea

Sara Duterte makes threat against remains of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictator father in searing verbal attack

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Labor rules out negative gearing changes; fans mourn Liam Payne; and the bid to bring back the thylacine

Pressure had been mounting on the government after Anthony Albanese’s purchase of a $4.3m property

The Guardian - AU

Duterte drug war back in ICC spotlight after parliamentary committee hears claims his office paid police $17,000 to kill suspects

Accusation against former Philippines president increases pressure on successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr to allow access to international criminal court

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