Indonesian authorities say at least two dozen people have died in the past day from drinking toxic bootleg liquor, raising the toll to 82 this month and highlighting how attempts to curb legal alcohol have tragically backfired.

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President Donald Trump is threatening an imminent military strike against Syria, vowing to respond “forcefully” to Saturday’s apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians and warning that Russia or any other nation found to share responsibility will “pay a price.”

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Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday challenged her colleagues in the Supreme Court to undergo the same proceedings like her should a similar quo warrant petitions be filed against them.

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President Rodrigo Duterte did not interfere in the filing of a quo warranto petition in the Supreme Court against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, according to Solicitor General Jose Calida. “He does not interfere,” Calida said during Tuesday’s oral argument on the petition that he had filed.

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Supporters of Chief Justice-on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday night burned posters bearing the photographs of five Supreme Court justices who testified against her in Congress.

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The argument of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno that there were other applicants to the Supreme Court’s top post who only substantially complied with the requirement to submit their statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALN) is a fallacy, a hypocrisy.

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Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II was not done yet with his critics as he expressed grudges during his last address at Department of Justice (DOJ). Speaking before DOJ officials and employees on Tuesday morning, Aguirre dismissed the attacks hurled at him over the dismissal of drug charges against self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and businessman Peter Lim as “pure black propaganda.”

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