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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, students burn a Chinese flag as they protest against the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping outside the Presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine foreign secretary has ordered via Twitter the filing of a diplomatic protest against China after Chinese coast guard ships reportedly strayed near a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Philippine official tweets order for new protest vs China

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Duterte flies to Russia for 2nd time to meet ‘idol’ Putin

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2019, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he addresses the topic of land reform in Manila, Philippines. Duterte's presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo says the Philippines is suspending negotiations and signing of loans and grants with 18 countries that backed a U.N. human rights resolution calling for an inquiry into human rights conditions. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Duterte suspends any loan talks with backers of rights probe

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Duterte fires prisons chief amid uproar on convicts’ release

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meet at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Any suggestion?’ Duterte asks after Xi reaffirms sea claims

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Presidential Malacanang Palace on Saturday July 20, 2019, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits the wake for slain police officers at Camp Lt. Col. Francisco C. Fernandez Jr. in Sibulan, Negros Oriental, in Central Philippines. On Thursday, July 25, 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte said he raised a reward of 3 million pesos ($59,000) out of anger for what he described as the Islamic State group-style killings of the officers on July 18 in Negros Oriental province. Communist guerrillas claimed responsibility for the attack but denied torturing the police officers. (Ace Morandante/Presidential Photo Via AP)

Duterte offers bounty for ‘head’ of lead killer of 4 police

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Protesters display placards as they prepare to march closer to the Philippine Congress to protest the 4th State of the Nation (SONA) address by President Rodrigo Duterte Monday, July 22, 2019 in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Duterte is facing criticisms about his alleged closeness with China as well as the thousands of killings in his so-called war on drugs. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Duterte: Can’t stop China in disputed seas, won’t risk clash

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2019 file photo, Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo salutes during a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the 121st anniversary of Philippine independence at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines. Officials say police have filed sedition and other criminal complaints against the vice president, three opposition senators, four Roman Catholic bishops and a university president for allegedly conniving to destabilize President Rodrigo Duterte's administration. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine police file sedition case against vice president

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2018, file photo, a protester displays a placard during a rally to mark International Women's Day which largely turns out to be an anti-government event in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine president signed Tuesday, July 16, 2019 a bill into law penalizing a range of acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women's groups have accused him of committing. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Activists: Duterte in crosshairs with new law on harassment

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this April 19, 2018, photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses troops during the turnover-of-command ceremony for the new chief of the Philippine National Police General Oscar Albayalde succeeding General Ronald &quot;Bato&quot; Dela Rosa at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Amnesty International slams Philippines over Duterte’s drug crackdown

By Moss Brennan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, seminarians and nuns carry slogans and a mock coffin during a rally in Manila, Philippines, against drug-related killings and martial law. Amnesty International urgently called Monday for international pressure and an immediate U.N. investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's bloody anti-drug crackdown. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Rights group calls Duterte’s drug war crime against humanity

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this undated June 2019 handout photo provided Arlinda dela Torre via the Department of Agriculture, the damaged Filipino fishing boat F/B Gimver 1 lies on the shores at San Jose, Occidental Mindoro province, Philippines. China recently acknowledged its fishing vessel hit a Filipino boat in the disputed South China Sea in an incident that prompted an outcry in the Philippines but denies the collision was intentional. The Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest after Filipino fishermen said a Chinese vessel rammed their anchored boat on Sunday night then abandoned them as the boat sank in the Reed Bank. (Department of Agriculture via AP)

Duterte calls for calm over Chinese sinking of fishing boat

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte attend a welcoming prior to their meeting at Abe's official residence Friday, May 31, 2019, in Tokyo. Duterte is in Japan to participate in the 25th International Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

Duterte wary over US-China trade war, wants it resolved soon

By HARUKA NUGA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2017, file photo, then Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa gestures as he talks to reporters at police headquarters in metropolitan Manila, Philippines. Elections officials were to proclaim the winners Wednesday, May 22, 2019, after finishing the official count of the May 13 elections overnight. President Rodrigo Duterte backed eight winning aspirants to half of the seats in the 24-member Senate, including his former national police chief, Ronald dela Rosa, who enforced the president's crackdown on illegal drugs in a campaign that left thousands of suspects dead and drew international condemnation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Duterte’s allies dominate Senate race, shut out opposition

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 7, 2015, file photo, Filipino environmental activists wear a mock container vans filled with garbage to symbolize the 50 containers of waste that were shipped from Canada to the Philippines two years ago, as they hold a protest outside the Canadian embassy at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine foreign secretary said Thursday, May 16, 2019, the ambassador and consuls in Canada are being recalled over Ottawa's failure to take back truckloads of garbage that Filipino officials say were illegally shipped to the Philippines years ago. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Philippines recalls envoys in Canada over trash shipments

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

A Manila City public worker removes the campaign posters, mostly that of incumbent Mayor and former President Joseph &quot;Erap&quot; Estrada around the Manila City Hall, a day after the country's midterm elections Tuesday, May 14, 2019 in Manila, Philippines. Estrada lost his third term mayoral bid along with four of his children who ran in local polls, ending his 50-year-dominance in two metropolitan cities in the country. Two of his sons, who ran for senators, are also clinging to the last senate slot in initial results, which were dominated by President Rodrigo Duterte's allies. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Duterte allies appear to have won Philippine Senate seats

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this Thursday, May 9, 2019, photo, a man walks past election banners in the slum district of Tondo, Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Filipinos cast vote in midterm elections crucial to Duterte

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

In this Thursday, May 9, 2019 photo, pedicabs with election posters go around Manila's slum district of Tondo, Philippines. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's name is not on the ballot but Monday's mid-term elections are seen as a referendum on his phenomenal rise to power, marked by his gory anti-drug crackdown and his embrace of China. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Duterte allies seek to dominate Philippine midterm polls

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Philippine president threatens to return garbage to Canada

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Moro Islamic Liberation Front chairman Murad Ebrahim, right, flash peace signs following oath-taking ceremony for the creation of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) at the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine president has warned he would declare a revolutionary government and arrest his detractors and outlaws if he says he's pushed to the wall. President Rodrigo Duterte made the threat late Thursday, April 4, in a speech where he expressed his exasperation with criticism even while he's trying to fight irregularities.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Duterte: few options in territorial disputes with China

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press