INQToday: Rodrigo Duterte appeals for an interim release from ICC detention

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Rodrigo Duterte appeals for an interim release from ICC detention

Former President Rodrigo Duterte has formally appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an interim release to an undisclosed country.

Duterte’s counsel, Nicolas Kaufman, made the tribunal aware of the ex-chief executive’s appeal in a filing dated June 12, noting that a specific government — which was undisclosed and redacted in the document — has expressed its “advance and principled agreement” to receive Duterte.

Sara Duterte: I won’t bring dad home, Imee Marcos will

Vice President Sara Duterte said the one to bring home her father and former President Rodrigo Duterte was not her but rather her ally, Senator Imee Marcos.

Duterte made this remark in a speech to overseas Filipinos marking Independence Day in Malaysia, where she was joined by Marcos.

At least 265 dead in India plane crash, one passenger survives

In an echoing hall in India’s Ahmedabad, mourning families gave DNA samples on Friday to identify relatives missing after a London-bound passenger jet crashed in a residential area.

At least 265 people on board and on the ground were killed when the Air India 787-8 Dreamliner smashed into a residential area soon after takeoff on Thursday. Just one passenger miraculously survived the giant fireball.