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Palace slams NYT for editorial calling PHL deadliest nation for environmental, rights activists

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Aug. 3, slammed the New York Times for its editorial the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has become the deadliest place for environmental and rights activists. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Aug. 1 editorial titled “In the Fight to Save the Planet, Its Defenders Are Being Killed” that said  the country of the “brutal” Duterte took the spot from Brazil was “not surprising.” He said […]