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A diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks states that President Rodrigo Duterte once “admitted complicity” in vigilante killings in Davao City. Duterte, meanwhile, said he’s having his latest drug list revalidated after finding out some of his friends are on it.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr urged the international community to stay out of the Philippines’ “domestic challenges.”
State weather bureau PAGASA is also monitoring Typhoon Helen (Megi).
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Did President Rodrigo Duterte once admit “complicity” in vigilante killings in Davao City? That’s what a confidential cable – written back in 2009 by former US ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney – says. The cable was made public by WikiLeaks.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he couldn’t believe that some of his friends were on another drug list prepared by his administration, so he ordered that the list be revalidated. The new list is supposedly 6 times longer than his previous one, which had 158 names.
Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr told other countries to let the Philippines deal with its problems “without undue interference.” He also defended the Duterte administration amid criticism against the war on drugs, saying that extrajudicial killings “have no place in our society.”
Typhoon Helen (Megi) slightly intensified on Sunday morning, September 25. Batanes and the Babuyan Group of Islands are under signal number 1.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got the nod of The New York Times, which hailed her intelligence, public service record, and other strengths. The influential newspaper also described Clinton’s rival Donald Trump as “the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history.”
Authorities arrested the suspect behind a fatal shooting at a shopping mall in the US state of Washington. The suspect – described as a Hispanic man in his late teens or early 20s – killed 5 people.
The Philippines’ Commission on Audit is beefing up its use of social media to fight corrupt practices in government. At Rappler’s Social Good Summit, COA Chairman Michael Aguinaldo called on the public to file reports through Facebook so state auditors can look into questionable projects.
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