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Philippine President Confesses to Sin of Extrajudicial Killings

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09/28/2018

09/28/2018

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Philippine President Confesses to Sin of Extrajudicial Killings

Top News: In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted to authorizing extrajudicial killings for the first time, calling them “my only sin.” In the same speech, Duterte emphasized that the country’s drug war, which is estimated to have killed 12,000 people, “will not end” while he is in power. Duterte’s admission could strengthen the two cases that have been filed against him at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and lend credence to the claims of human rights groups, who have accused him of orchestrating mass killings of drug dealers and users.

Micronesia: An Air Niugini flight landed short of the runway and plunged into a lagoon in Chuuk, one of four islands that make up the Federated States of Micronesia, all 47 people on board were rescued on Friday morning. “It’s just surreal, I thought we landed hard until I looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water coming in, and I thought, well, this is not, like, the way it’s supposed to happen,” Bill Jaynes, a passenger, shared on Facebook.

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AFRICA

•  South Sudan’s civil war is now estimated to have killed 383,000 people since the beginning of the conflict in December 2013.

•  Burundi’s government has suspended the licenses of domestic and international NGOs without offering an explanation of how these organizations are violating the country’s laws.

•  Five men are facing terrorism charges in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, after they allegedly threw a bomb on stage as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addressed a crowded rally in June. The attack left Abiy unharmed, but killed two people and injured more than 150 others.

AMERICAS

•  The U.S. Senate’s judiciary committee will vote on whether or not to advance the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Committee regarding her allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, when the two were in high school. The American Bar Association has called on the committee to delay the vote until the FBI can investigate.

•  Mexican lawmakers have proposed holding a referendum on whether to shorten presidential terms, something Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, promised on the campaign trail. The current term is six years long and López Obrador has vowed to hold a referendum on his own performance after three years.

•  In response to international criticism, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that U.N. Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet could visit the country “whenever she wants” to investigate the humanitarian situation.

ASIA

•  As high level meetings at the United Nations continue to highlight crimes against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, China’s foreign ministry released a statement that “China does not approve of complicating, expanding, or internationalizing this issue.”

•  A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday morning. An initial tsunami warning has been lifted, but authorities are warning people to be alert and prepare for aftershocks.

•  In a rare moment captured on film, a seal hurled an octopus at a kayaker off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island.

EUROPE

•  Police in the Netherlands have arrested seven men in the city of Arnhem who were attempting to source guns and ingredients to make explosives to carry out a “major terrorist attack,” according to Dutch authorities.

•  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the German government to extradite to Turkey supporters of the religious cleric Fethullah Gulen who live in Germany. Gulen himself, who Erdogan believes is responsible for a 2016 coup attempt, now resides in the United States.

•  In France, a new law against verbal sexual assault was applied for the first time to convict a man who verbally harassed a woman on a bus, before he assaulted the driver who tried to intervene.

MIDDLE EAST

•  At Friday prayers in Tehran, Hossein Salami, the deputy head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps blamed Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for last week’s attack on a military parade in Ahvaz.

•  Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir accused Canada of treating the country like a “banana republic,” after calling for the release of Shiite and women’s rights activists in the Kingdom.

•  Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, alleged that Iran is hiding a “secret atomic warehouse,” and said that he was “deeply grateful” that the United States had pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

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