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Leila de Lima enraged Rodrigo Duterte when she began investigating killings carried out during his ‘war on drugs’

The coming 12 months can’t promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the world’s population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year – and many of the themes persist: the impact of…

Philippine police file criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security aides, separate from previous threats case. Legal issues es...

Criminal complaints, threats of assassination, and escalating conflict between Sara Duterte and Marcos families in the Philippines.

Philippine security forces said Wednesday they had replaced Vice President Sara Duterte's bodyguards, days after the justice department launched a probe into her alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos.

Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for disobeying orders from authorities in a recent altercation in Congress

Politics in the Philippines is beset by clan rivalry at the best of times – but recent events have well and truly blown the lid off a box of snakes. A vice-president making assassination threats towards her own president, while the country reels from its sixth typhoon in a month.…

Political feud in the Philippines between President Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte tests democracy and raises concerns about the nation's future.

Relations between powerful vice president and president continue to deteriorate, as investigators summon Duterte.