‘Go to hell’: Philippines’ Duterte to UN expert
Manila: President Rodrigo Duterte has told a United Nations rights expert to “go to hell” over criticism of the Philippine leader for threatening the country’s top judge. Duterte’s latest profanity-laced diatribe came after Diego Garcia-Sayan, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said the president’s statements against former chief justice Maria lourdes Sereno were a “vicious attack” on the judiciary.
Sri lanka to attract more Chinese tourists
Colombo: Sri lanka’s Tourism Minister John Amaratunga held talks with China’s tourism and airline officials to encourage more Chinese visitors to the island nation, it was reported on Sunday.
‘jehadi jails’ remain empty over HR fears
london: Britain’s high-security prison units created to house the country’s most dangerous convicted terrorists,
dubbed as “jehadi jails”, are going empty as the Prison Service fears being legally challenged on human rights grounds.
‘Trump wants to reform world trading system’
Washington: “This president, from day one, wants to reform the world trading system. It is not working. And there is so much unfair trading and illegal trading practices,” larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump told Fox News. The current world trade system, he argued, has “virtually” no reciprocity.