By: DJ Yap, Krixia Subingsubing, Philippine Daily Inquirer / December 16, 2020 Critics of President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s report that there was a “reasonable basis to believe” that he and his subordinates committed crimes against humanity in the bloody war on drugs meant they could soon…
Dec 15, 2020, Lian Buan MANILA, Philippines Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has not yet decided whether she will move the phase to a formal investigation, citing restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there is “reasonable basis” to believe that crimes against humanity were committed in the killings related…
A number of European countries have tightened coronavirus restrictions ahead of Christmas following a surge of infections in recent weeks. The Netherlands has entered a five-week lockdown, with non-essential shops, theatres and gyms all closing. Germany will enter a hard lockdown from Wednesday after the number of infections there hit record levels. Meanwhile, Europe’s medicines…
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Online, Dec. 14, 2020 The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has claimed that the Duterte administration, through the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), will “export its terror activities” in other nations, particularly in North America and Europe. In a press statement dated…
Dec 13, 2020 Agence France-Presse Berlin, Germany (UPDATED) Germany records another 20,200 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, reaching a total of 1.3 million cases Germany will go into a partial lockdown from Wednesday, December 16, with non-essential shops and schools to close in a bid to halt an “exponential growth” in coronavirus…
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(Philstar.com) – December 12, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Pro-Marcos books, heritage sites and online disinformation are linked with one another, researchers from the University of the Philippines found according to a report by VERA Files. Researchers Miguel Paolo Reyes and Joel Ariate Jr. found that books written in favor of the Marcoses were written by…
Franco Luna (Philstar.com) – December 10, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — To claim that extrajudicial killings and abuses linked to the government’s “war on drugs” is just a narrative peddled by the political opposition ignores the experiences of the victims of these abuses, a Catholic priest critical of the killings said Thursday. Fr. Flavie Villanueva, SVD, in a…