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Philippines President says he'd wants to slaughter three million drug addicts, likening his campaign to Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Paul Chapman reports.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesperson announced that the leader regretted calling US President Barack Obama a "son of a whore", on the day that both Duterte and Obama arrived in Vientiane, capital of Laos, for the ASEAN summit on Tuesday.
In footage courtesy of RTVM, The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called US President Barack Obama a “Putang ina," which means “son of a whore” in Tagalog at a press conference in Manila on Monday, saying that "the Philippines have long ceased to be a colony". Duterte is due to meet his US counterpart at a summit in Laos where he is expected to face questions over 2,000 alleged extra-judicial killings of drug dealers and users in the Philippines since he launched his war on drugs on June 30.
Hundreds of drug users in the Philippines are surrendering to police in fear of their safety, just days before the tough-talking president-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office.
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez is extradited to the United States to stand trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America. IMAGES