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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would have his son killed if drug trafficking allegations against the younger politician were true, and that the police who carried out the hit would be protected from prosecution.
Paolo Duterte, 42, this month appeared before a senate inquiry to deny accusations made by an opposition lawmaker he was a member of a Chinese triad who helped smuggle in a huge shipment of crystal methamphetamine from China.
President Duterte did not refer to the…

The European Commission has proposed measures to improve cybersecurity in the EU, including a cybersecurity agency that would help EU countries hit by cyber- attacks and a European certification scheme to ensure that digital products and services are safe to use.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday the first group of about 50 men and woman held in two controversial detention centres for asylum seekers on remote Pacific islands will be resettled in the United States within weeks.
Turnbull’s comments mark the first official timetable for when the United States would begin resettling up to 1,250 people held in Australian-run centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus island as part of a refugee swap deal struck by…

Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has closed down the providers of cryptocurrency e-coin, calling the currency “fake”.

Critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have adopted the three-finger salute from the hit Hunger Games films as a sign of resistance against his rule and drug war killings.
The sign is in contrast to Duterte’s own iconic gesture, a clenched fist raised at or above eye level that is immensely popular with his support but which opponents have likened to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s hand salute.
Opposition lawmakers and other members of a new anti-Duterte coalition performed the…

By Ko Dong-hwan K-pop duo band Akdong Musician’s composer and singer Lee Chan-hyuk, often regarded as a musical prodigy has enlisted in the country’s Marine Corps.   The star, 21, who plays with his younger sister Su-hyun, voluntarily entered a training centre in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. He kept his enlistment quiet from the public as his Christian pastor parents, a few close friends and staff from his agency YG Entertainment saw him enter the military world for…

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned all human rights violations on Tuesday and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State would face the law, and she felt deeply for the suffering of everyone caught up in conflict there.
Communal violence has torn through Rakhine state since August 25, leaving hundreds dead and driving more than 410,000 of the Rohingya minority from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, has been decried for failing to speak up publicly for…

Consulting firm PwC has revealed the pay gap between its white and black and minority ethnic (BAME) employees for the first time.

The wife of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared to have won the parliamentary seat vacated by her husband following his disqualification by the Supreme Court from holding public office.
Victory by Kulsoom Sharif, who is currently receiving medical treatment in London, was declared by her daughter Sunday in front of supporters at the head office of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party in Lahore.
“Nawaz Sharif has won” against the court…

Philippine troops have rescued a Roman Catholic priest and another civilian who were among dozens of people abducted in May when hundreds of militants aligned with Islamic State laid siege on southern Marawi city, officials said on Sunday.
Presidential adviser Jesus Dureza and two senior security officials said without elaborating that troops retrieved the two late on Saturday after a battle to recapture a key mosque and another Islamic building used as a command centre by the gunmen in Marawi…