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Ex-mayors bare moves behind Duterte drug war

September 20, 2024

FOR CHURCH AND POPE Former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban Jr., who is also an Inquirer columnist, bows to receive the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, from Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jose Advincula in rites held at the Manila Cathedral on Wednesday. The honor is the highest that laypeople can receive from the Pope. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

Good morning. Ex-mayors bare moves behind Duterte drug war

The fog is lifting further on the Duterte drug war, with ex-Iloilo City mayor Jed Mabilog and ex-Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmena telling the House how the campaign was allegedly used also to smear political opponents and reward favored police officials.

Still at the House, former mayor Alice Guo's repeated invocation of her right against self-incrimination in the probe into her assets and POGO links left lawmakers so frustrated that they also cited her in contempt, echoing their Senate counterparts.

Widespread hunting of the Philippine palm civet, known to indigenous peoples in Cotabato province as "musang" or "milo," is threatening to wipe out the catlike animals and harm the local farmers' livelihood of selling exotic civet coffee.

Twenty people were killed and more than 450 wounded on Wednesday after walkie-talkies used by Lebanon's Hezbollah exploded, marking the second deadly wave of blasts targeting the Iran-backed group and stoking fears of a full-blown war with Israel.

In Opinion, physician-columnist Gideon Lasco hails popular doctor and one-time VP candidate Willie Ong's brave disclosure of his stomach cancer, "which can help reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by Filipinos affected by cancer."

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INQUIRER PLUS-EXCLUSIVE

Drilon on 2017 plot to link him to drug trade: 'I heard it for the first time this morning'

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