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Philippines senator who branded President Duterte 'serial killer' arrested

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Senator Leila de Lima’s statement on her arrest

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Rodrigo Duterte: I used to personally kill criminals

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How Trump's Property in Manila Looms Over His Interactions With Duterte
The president’s decision to invite the leader of the Philippines to the White House is another example of a gesture complicated by his business interests.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-duterte-conflict-of-interest/525084/

Trump Follows Instincts, Not Establishment, With Overtures to Kim and Duterte
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/world/asia/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html

Duterte may be too "tied up" to accept Trump's invite
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rodrigo-duterte-trump-philippines-invite-may-be-too-tied-up/

What Trump Sees in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trump-sees-in-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte

The Thug Appeal of Rodrigo Duterte
Making sense of Trump’s White House invitation to the Philippine president
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/rodrigo-duterte-donald-trump/525072/

Rodrigo Duterte: What You Need to Know About Controversial Philippine President
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rodrigo-duterte-what-you-need-know-about-controversial-philippine-president-n753901

Trump’s warm words for strongmen set off alarms
The deal-making president appears to be buttering up totalitarian leaders with long records of human rights abuses.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/trump-duterte-dictators-white-house-237848

Birds of a Feather
What Lies Beneath Trump’s Fixation With Strongmen Like Duterte
From Erdogan to Putin to even Kim, President Trump has plenty of kind words for authoritarians—and their shared narcissism has a lot to do with it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/02/what-lies-beneath-trump-s-fixation-with-strongmen-like-duterte

Trump keeps praising international strongmen, alarming human rights advocates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-keeps-praising-international-strongmen-alarming-human-rights-advocates/2017/05/01/6848d018-2e81-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
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It’s time to seriously consider that Trump is unfit to be president
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All of Trump’s campaign statements just vanished from his website. So let’s remember them.
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