President Duterte of the Philippines has launched a wide-ranging campaign of extra judicial killings, directed at criminals and drug traffickers, in violation of constitutional norms and legal procedures. Bolstered by wide popular support he has also initiated a strategic shift of his country away ...
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Rodrigo Duterte, the outspoken and polarizing populist president of the Philippines, is best known for his aggressivewar on drugs, which, according to human rights groups, has resulted in theextrajudicial killingsof tens of thousands of people in his country. Duterte has stated publicly, multiple t...
MANILA, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Rodrigo Roa Duterte took his oath of office as the 16th President of thePhilippinesin Malacanang, the presidential palace in Manila on Thursday. The former Davao City Mayor won the Philippine presidential election held on May 9, with 16,601,997 votes, a lead o...
President Trump has invited Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, to the White House after a "very friendly" phone conversation, the White House said in a statement Saturday. Mr. Trump and Duterte will "discuss the importance of the United States-Philippines alliance, which is now...
The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn’t take back tonnes of trash within the next week he will “declare war” and ship the containers back himself. Filipino media outlets report that Rodrigo Duterte made threats Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian hou...
afp an eyebrow-raising reputation president rodrigo duterte of the philippines has a bit of a reputation. the global community has come to know the philippine's 16th president as a man of contentious quips and often offensive quotes. but while duterte has been the inspiration fo...
Parents:Vicente and Soledad Rao Duterte Education:Law degree Lyceum of the Philippines University Experience:Mayor of Davao City, 1988–2016; President of the Phillippines 2016–present. Spouse:Elizabeth Zimmerman (wife, 1973–2000), Cielito "Honeylet" Avanceña (partner, mid-1990s to present) ...
On May 9, Filipinos will elect a new president to succeed Duterte, whose six-year term ends in June. Duterte was elected president in 2016. The Philippine constitution permits the president to serve a single six-year term. The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs has not issued an offic...
“Boracay is acesspool,” President Rodrigo Duterte declared, with customary frankness, in a speech last month. “You go into the water, it’s smelly. Smells of what? Shit.” Look down, and your toes curl up in the green algae washed ashore from the shallows where it grows, fed by ...