On September 6, the head police chief in Cagayan de Oro City announced that his agency would be increasing its efforts to restrict non-regulated gambling. The 10th-most populated city in the Philippines, the Cagayan de Oro chief said he will resign if his department cannot eliminate illegal gambling rings from the city within two months.<\/p>\n
Local officials say underground gaming is hampering sales of the town’s regulated lotto.<\/p>\n
Duterte’s lead law enforcement official Ronald Dela Rosa, chief director of the Philippine National Police, says his force will go after illegal gambling once the present war on drugs concludes in six months.<\/p>\n
Duterte wasn’t the only international diplomat failing to show respect to Obama this week, either.<\/p>\n
Like Duterte, President Obama is in China now for the\u00a0G20 Summit. But when the American president arrived, the typical red carpet staircase almost exclusively used to welcome international leaders was mysteriously absent.<\/p>\n
In fact, China didn’t even provide a staircase lift to Air Force One. Instead, Mr. Obama exited the plane from a seldom-used staircase that comes out from underneath the belly of the aircraft.<\/p>\n
\n“They won’t even give him stairs, proper stairs, to get out of the airplane,” Republican 2016 nominee Donald Trump said. “If that were me, I would say, ‘You know what, folks, I respect you a lot but close the doors, let’s get out of here.'”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTrump made the remarks at an event in Ohio, and his Democratic challenger wasn’t far away. With both candidates recognizing the importance of winning Ohio,\u00a0Clinton and Trump’s airplanes passed each other while taxiing on the tarmac at Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n
A new CNN poll shows Trump leading Clinton by two percent, but the Real Clear Politics polling average still has the former secretary of state ahead by 3.3 points in what’s turning out to be one of the most dramatic presidential campaigns of the past 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is walking back comments directed at US President Barack Obama.\u00a0Just hours after Duterte said he doesn’t answer to anyone “except the Filipino people” and\u00a0called Obama a “son of a bitch” in his native Tagalog, the Philippines leader issued a quasi-apology through his spokesman. “We look forward to ironing out our differences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":39210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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