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‘Kill order’ intended only to scare drug lords

THE war on drugs required “psyschological warfare,” the chief of the Philippine National Police Ronald Dela Rosa said Tuesday, to justify President Rodrigo Duterte’s...

Deaf driver shot dead by US police during traffic stop

Authorities in the southern US state of North Carolina said they are investigating the death of a deaf man who was fatally shot after...

Boko Haram kills 10, abducts 13 in Nigeria

Boko Haram Islamists have killed 10 people and abducted 13 others in a raid on a village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok...

22 civilians killed in Mexico drug raid

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2 girls die after circumcisions in Sierra Leone, Guinea

A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl...

Mexico police kill 22 civilians in drug raid

Mexican police massacred 22 civilians in arbitrary executions during a raid on a drug gang last year, a human rights ombudsman said. The bloodbath happened...

Drug slays probed; US weighs in

THE government on Sunday vowed to investigate reports of a wave of extrajudicial killings, after Washington warned that military aid was dependent on respect...

UN slams killings; drug lords tagged

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Rights watch seeks halt to killings

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UN deplores murder of Mexican journalist

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CHR creates probe panel

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Obama urges Vietnam to uphold human rights

HANOI—US President Barack Obama told communist Vietnam on Tuesday that basic human rights would not jeopardize its stability, in an impassioned appeal for the...

‘Human rights must be priority’

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago, an elected judge of the International Criminal Court, on Monday challenged her rivals to include human rights concerns in...

Human rights body asked to probe 5 cops’ abduction

The Philippine National Police has asked the Commission on Human Rights  to  look  into the  plight of  five police  officers who were abducted and...
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