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Ex-Philippine resident Rodrigo Duterte came to office vowing to rid the country of drugs and drug pushers.

For decades, ‘Duterte Harry’ did as he pleased – then police boarded his plane

The former Philippine president may have thought he was too powerful to be arrested over the deaths of thousands of people. He was wrong.

  • Zach Hope

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Rodrigo Duterte withdrew the Philippines in 2019 from the Rome Statute in a move human rights activists say was aimed at escaping accountability.

Duterte extradited to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity

The maverick former Philippines leader’s signature policy drew widespread criticism for its brutality. H was arrested by Interpol on an ICC warrant.

  • Zach Hope
Edgar Matobato, a member of a death squad linked to former President Rodrigo Duterte, inside a church compound at an undisclosed location in the Philippines in June.

‘I will face what I did’: On the run, a hitman gives one last confession

Edgar Matobato says he killed again and again for former president Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Now he’s trying to stay alive to testify.

  • Hannah Beech
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He said, Xi said: Why Beijing may seek to exploit Philippine political divorce

The president and vice president of the Philippines are at each other’s throats. But the row is a potential proxy for a much more significant conflict.

  • Peter Hartcher
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte she has contracted an assassin to kill the president if she herself is killed.

The Philippines VP publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

Sara Duterte says she hired an assassin in case she herself is killed, in a brazen public statement she warned was not a joke.

  • Jim Gomez
Donald Trump on election night in Florida.

Trump victory puts the nature of democracy in question

Democracies have a fatal flaw: majorities can elect leaders who do not believe in democracy or the rule of law or the necessity of strong independent civil institutions such as universities and a free press.

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Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos jnr poses with new Vice President Sara Duterte after his swearing-in ceremony.

Philippines vice-president says she’ll dig up boss’ dead father and throw him into sea

The alliance of two notorious political dynasties was a marriage of convenience, and its rupture has been spectacular.

  • Sui-Lee Wee and Camille Elemia
A video recording of Apollo Quiboloy was streamed inside his megachurch compound in Davao City.

Fugitive televangelist ‘The Appointed Son of God’ caught after secret bunker hunt

Weeks of tense standoff in the Philippines have ended in the capture of a pastor accused of leading an international ring of sex abuse and trafficking of young women and girls.

  • Hannah Beech
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with Philippines President Ferdinand R Marcos jnr at the presidential palace in Manila.

China’s provocations finally bring Australia and the Philippines together

It’s taken a mutual wariness, and even alarm, about China’s economic coercion and territorial expansionism to bond the two nations together.

  • Matthew Knott
Jailed senator Leila de Lima.

Ex-senator taken hostage, inmates shot dead in Philippine jail rampage

One of the militants linked to the Islamic State group demanded a helicopter for him to escape.

  • Jill Gomez

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