Four Things You Didn't Know About the New Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and other top stories.

• Four Things You Didn't Know About the New Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

  

  The Philippines’ presidential election has received international media attention, in large part because of the outspoken, occasionally outlandish remarks of its victor, Rodrigo Duterte. The 71-year-old Duterte, who made his political name as the militantly anti-crime mayor of Davao City, has joked about rape, insulted the Pope, and flippantly discussed his sex life while on the campaign trail, and yet voters in the Philippines — a conservative and Catholic country — overwhelmingly supported ..

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• Five terror suspects caught trying to flee Australia to Syria by boat

  

  The men are suspected of "potential offenses against the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act, specifically those concerning incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities," according to a joint press release by the Australian Federal Police, Victoria Police and the Queensland Police Service.As the suspects' passports had been canceled, their only option to leave Australia was by sea. They were found with a seven-meter fiberglass cabin cruiser allegedly bought to make the trip. "We ..

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• Queen overheard calling Chinese officials 'very rude'

  

  Media captionThe Queen discusses the Chinese state visit with Commander Lucy D'Orsi The Queen has been caught on camera saying Chinese officials were "very rude" during last year's state visit by President Xi Jinping. She was discussing their treatment of Britain's ambassador to China with a senior police officer at a Buckingham Palace garden party on Tuesday.It came after David Cameron was overheard saying Afghanistan and Nigeria were "fantastically corrupt".Buckingham Palace said the Chin..

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• David Cameron calls Afghanistan, Nigeria 'fantastically corrupt'

  

  At a reception, a television crew picked up a conversation between the prime minister and the Queen."We had a very successful cabinet meeting this morning talking about the anti-corruption summit ...," Cameron told Her Majesty. Then, with a bit of a chortle, he said, "We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain ... Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world." The Queen's response to these comments is not clearly audible, th..

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• Asia Pacific|Obama's Visit Raises Ghosts of Hiroshima

  

  Newer exhibits in Hiroshima have reminded visitors that the city was no random target, but a buzzing manufacturing hub of the Japanese war machine. “Some of us believe that when we think about the bomb, we should think about the war, too,” Hiroshima’s mayor told me in 1994 as we walked through the new exhibit, which Japanese rightists had opposed opening.Yet even today, 22 years later, the sanitized accounts of the war taught to a new generation of Japanese schoolchildren largely avoid delving ..

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• Bangladesh executes Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes

  

  The 73-year-old was hanged at Dhaka's Central Jail after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2014 by a special tribunal for orchestrating genocide, rape and the massacre of top intellectuals during the conflict.It's estimated between 1 million and 3 million people were killed in the nine-month war.Jamaat-e-Islami strongly opposed the breaking away from Pakistan and the party was banned shortly after Bangladesh gained independence. The group then reent..

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