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Duterte dares ICC: Come get me before I die

November 14, 2024

OLD WOUNDS MADE RAW Former President Rodrigo Duterte finds himself seated next to arch-critic and former Sen. Leila de Lima at Wednesday's House quad committee hearing. His daughter and Vice President Sara Duterte joins the audience at Batasan, where a Mass was earlier held for the families left grieving by her father's war on drugs (insets). —NIÑO JESUS ORBETA

Hi there. Duterte dares ICC: Come get me before I die

Finally appearing before the House quad committee on Wednesday, former president Rodrigo Duterte took full responsibility for his brutal drug war and dared the International Criminal Court to "come here and start the investigation tomorrow."

In response to Duterte's taunt at the ICC to hurry up, Malacanang declared it would not stand in the way if Duterte turns himself over to the ICC, or if the international court asks Interpol to serve an arrest warrant on the former leader.

Former police official and drug war witness Royina Garma may apply for asylum in the US, according to a Washington D.C.-based immigration lawyer, following Garma and her daughter's arrest by US authorities for cancelled visas.

A Fox TV host as US Defense Secretary? Donald Trump stunned many when he bared his choice for the post -- Pete Hegseth, who has scant experience on the global stage but will take over the world's largest and most powerful military.

"During the [US] election... I saw a clear divide... about Trump in my circle of friends and relatives of Filipino descent," with most of those in the US for Trump and Filipinos in PH against him. "What explains the divide?," wonders Joel Ruiz Butuyan in Opinion.

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