Philippine President Duterte Arrest Spokesman to End Three-Week Confrontation


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Philippine police arrested the most prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, ending a three-week confrontation that tested Duterte's limits of power and called into question the country's judicial independence.

Antonio Trillanes IV, a practicing senator, was arrested Tuesday inside the Senate building, where he had been hiding since Mr. Duterte had canceled an amnesty and ordered the police and army of the Stop. The amnesty was granted by a former president for the senator's role in a military failure …

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