Windows26: Calls mount on EJK accountability

October 29, 2024

Hi, reader! Today, we're covering mounting calls for accountability over EJKs following Rodrigo Duterte's revelations, potential impeachment grounds against VP Sara Duterte, and updates on Typhoon Leon.

Calls mount on EJK accountability

Calls mounted on Monday for the government to make former President Rodrigo Duterte accountable after he testified at a Senate inquiry that he was responsible for the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during his administration's brutal campaign against illegal drugs from 2016 to 2022.

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House committee chair: 2 possible grounds for VP Duterte impeachment

The head of the House committee investigating the alleged mishandling of public funds in the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) said it had come up with two possible grounds — graft and corruption and betrayal of public trust — for impeaching Vice President Sara Duterte.

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LIVE UPDATES: Typhoon Leon

Keep yourself updated on the movement of the typhoon.

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Duterte tells Senate: I have a death squad

Former President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday confessed to keeping a seven-member "death squad" that had carried out his orders to liquidate criminals when he was mayor of Davao City, an anticrime strategy that his critics believed was the prototype of the drug war that he had implemented throughout his six-year presidency.

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Harry Roque included in trafficking raps tied to raided Pogo

Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque is now implicated in the qualified human trafficking case against Cassandra Li Ong and several others concerning the alleged illegal activities of the Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) hub Lucky South 99 Corp.

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EDITORIAL: The audacity of Apollo Quiboloy

It takes a special kind of gall for a man to sit at a Senate inquiry face-to-face with the very people who accused him of murdering church followers and raping preteen girls. And for the same man to tell his alleged victims point-blank: "That's a lie and if that's an accusation, I request my accuser to file a case against me."

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