Duterte threatens to terminate VFA | Evening wRap

Today on Rappler:

• After U.S. cancels Bato’s visa, Duterte threatens to scrap visiting forces agreement

President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to ‘terminate’ the Philippine’s Visiting Forces Agreement or VFA with the United States. Dela Rosa was Duterte’s first police chief and implemented the administration’s bloody anti-illegal drug campaign.

• Duterte: ‘Rich people who are crazy should be killed’

President Rodrigo Duterte says Thursday, January 23, ‘crazy rich people’ should be killed for supposedly preventing the Filipino people from prospering.

• China virus toll jumps to 25 dead with 830 confirmed cases – govt

The death toll in China’s viral 2019 novel coronavirus or n-CoV outbreak rises to 25, with the number of confirmed cases also leaping to 830.

• U.S. to limit visas for pregnant women to curb ‘birth tourism’

United States President Donald Trump bars the issuing of visas to pregnant women seeking to enter the county for so-called ‘birth tourism.’

• European Union chiefs sign Brexit deal ahead of parliamentary vote

The text will now go to the European Parliament on Wednesday, January 29 for ratification. – Rappler.com