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This image taken from video provided by VTV shows U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking during an online meeting with ASEAN foreign ministers on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. During the meeting, Pompeo slashed out on China saying Beijing does not respect fundamental democratic values and urged ASEAN nations to act against China's dominance. (VTV via AP)

US to ASEAN: Reconsider deals with blacklisted China firms

By HAU DINH and YVES DAM VAN - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he meets members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Monday Aug. 30, 2020. Duterte publicly ordered the country's top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly four-year campaign that has been the centerpiece of his presidency. (King Rodriguez/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)

Philippine leader pardons US Marine in transgender killing

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he meets members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Monday Aug. 30, 2020. Duterte publicly ordered the country's top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly four-year campaign that has been the centerpiece of his presidency. (King Rodriguez/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)

Duterte orders customs chief to shoot, kill drug smugglers

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Gunmen kill 9 motorcycle riders in southern Philippines

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, troopers secure an area after two explosions struck the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in the southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (Philippine National Red Cross via AP)

14 killed, 75 wounded in bomb attacks in south Philippines

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, a toppled house is seen after a quake struck in Cataingan, Masbate province, central Philippines on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020. A powerful and shallow earthquake struck a central Philippine region Tuesday, prompting people to dash out of homes and offices but there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. (John Mark Lalaguna/Philippine National Red Cross via AP)

Strong quake in Philippines kills 1, damages houses, roads

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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People pass by an empty coffin placed outside a public market to remind people to stay home as the government relaxes quarantine measures against the COVID19 on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. Coronavirus infections in the Philippines continues to surge Sunday as medical groups declared the country was waging "a losing battle" against the contagion and asked the president to reimpose a lockdown in the capital. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, reimposes lockdown in Manila

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Parishioners wearing masks as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID19 pray during a Mass at the Our Lady of Consolation Parish on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020, in Quezon city, Philippines. Coronavirus infections in the Philippines continues to surge Sunday as medical groups declared the country was waging &quot;a losing battle&quot; against the contagion and asked the president to reimpose a lockdown in the capital. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines virus cases top 100,000 in ‘losing battle’

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 24, 2020, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington. The Chinese Embassy in Washington said that a statement issued by Pompeo deliberately distorts the facts and disregards the efforts of China and the others to achieve peace and stability in the South China Sea. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China accuses US of sowing discord in South China Sea

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Philippines: China should comply with sea feud ruling

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Philippine villagers brace as volcano grows restive

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Filipina journalist braces for verdict in ‘cyber libel’ case

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FILE - In this May 28, 2020, file photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, talks during his speech at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The U.N. human rights office called on the Philippines government in a new report Thursday, June 4, to end all violence targeting suspected drug offenders and to disband private and state-backed paramilitary groups which have caused serious human rights violations in the country.(Ace Morandante/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP, File)

UN office denounces human rights violations in Philippines

By JAMEY KEATEN and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

This Thursday, May 14, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Typhoon Vongfong roaring toward the eastern Philippines. The strong typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Thursday, knocking out power and threatening food crops in a new emergency for a country already overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP)

Philippines riding out typhoon after virus slows evacuations

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Philippines rejects China’s territorial label on island

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, a paramedic speaks to a man at a labor camp in the Al Quoz neighborhood of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states have long been a lifeline for their families back home but they now find themselves trapped by the coronavirus pandemic. They are losing jobs, running out of money and desperate to return home as COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, stalks their labor camps. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Virus traps, sickens foreign laborers in Gulf Arab states

By JON GAMBRELL and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2018, file photo, demonstrators rally outside the Chinese Consulate to protest the two-day state visit in the country of President Xi Jinping in Manila, Philippines. The Philippines on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, has protested China’s declaration of a Manila-claimed South China Sea area as part of Chinese territory and the aiming of a weapon on a Philippine navy ship, the country’s top diplomat said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Philippines protests China’s sea claim, weapon pointing

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, background, addresses ASEAN leaders during the Special ASEAN summit on COVID-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, April 14, 2020. ASEAN leaders and their counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea hold the summit online to discuss actions coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Virtual summit: SE Asia leaders meet by video on pandemic

By HAU DINH and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Workers prepare to disinfect as a precaution against the new coronavirus at a local market in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

World virus infections hit 200,000; borders jammed in Europe

By David Rising and Chris Blake - Associated Press