President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (June 20) visited wounded troops sent to a hospital in neighboring Cagayan De Oro City to award medals and raise his soldiers’ morale, the same day he made his first visit to Marawi evacuees in Iligan City. Fighting in Marawi City has entered a fifth week, and nearly 350 people have been killed, according to an official count. Fleeing residents have said they have seen scores of bodies in the […]
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Between guilt and outrage, West looks helpless over Aleppo
by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – The fall of Aleppo has unleashed a mixture of outrage and impotence in the West, in which fury at the relentless carnage has mingled with guilt over the failure to stop it. Even the European public — who marched in the millions over the siege of Sarajevo or against the Iraq War — stayed at home as the Russian-backed Syrian regime smashed the country’s […]





