"While the Philippines has the prerogative to terminate the VFA anytime, the continuance of the agreement is deemed to be more beneficial to the Philippines compared to any predicates [conditions] were it to be terminated,” the official said.
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The report was part of an investigation by the Human Rights Watch to highlight the risk deportees face from the escalating violence in El Salvador.
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The president’s umbrage at the U.S. is also evident with his ever-warming relationship with China and its leader Xi Jinping.
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Duterte’s snub seems to center around Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, who is a staunch critic of the president and who has been in detention at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center since Feb. 24, 2017, on charges that she was involved in the illegal drug trade.
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A law made to regulate the use of facial recognition technology has been rendered defunct due to the wide use of iPhones.
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The timing of this outage came right before the next question from PBS moderator Judy Woodruff to the candidates. Should the U.S. boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics over China's alleged mass detention of its Uyghur citizens?
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The top Democrat in charge of a massive antitrust investigation into tech giants in Silicon Valley points out the change as one of the factors his committee will be investigating as part of an antitrust investigation.
Rejecting China’s objections, President Donald Trump signed two bills supporting the Hong Kong protesters with provisions for sanctions and the slashing of trade privileges.
Harassment in North Korea is particularly acute within the country's schools, North Korean defectors in South Korea say.
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State-run tabloid The Global Times chided that instead of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, it should be called the "Support Hong Kong Violence Act."
He said he was subjected to torture at the hands of mainland China’s secret police to get information on activists involved with the current anti-government protests
Phelim Kine tweeted that Duterte and his "henchmen" should be arrested for inciting mass murder in the guise of anti-drug operations.