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Philippine court says Sara Duterte impeachment unlawful
The Philippines' Supreme Court on Friday said the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte is unconstitutional, in a stunning victory for the embattled politician and rival of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The top court said the complaint didn't comply with the constitutional rule that only one impeachment proceeding may be initiated against the same official within one year. Duterte was awaiting a trial in the country's Senate that could lead to barring her from public office if convicted. Her legal team welcomed the decision, saying it has "once again upheld the rule of law and reinforced the constitutional limits against abuse of the impeachment process.' The court said in a statement that the Senate "could not acquire jurisdiction over the impeachment proceedings,' which suggests that the trial can't go ahead when Congress opens next week. In a separate statement, a spokesperson for the Senate said the chamber is "duty-bound to respect the finality of rulings issued by the High Court.' The vice president was impeached in February by the House of Representatives on accusations that include plotting to assassinate Marcos and misusing public funds. She denies allegations of wrongdoing. "The articles of impeachment, which was the fourth complaint, violated the one-year period ban because there were three complaints that were ahead of it,' court spokesperson Camille Sue Mae Ting told reporters. The court added in a statement that a new impeachment complaint can be filed starting Feb. 6 next year and "is not absolving Vice President Duterte from any of the charges against her.' The court statement said the decision was unanimous. Judges appointed by former President Rodrigo Duterte, the vice president's father, dominate the high court. It's unlikely that another impeachment complaint will be filed again, said Bob Herrera-Lim, managing director of risk consultancy Teneo. "The narrative that emerged from the midterms is that the Duterte family still has significant political support, and that voters may have tired of the battle between the Marcos and Duterte families as being the focus of politics,' he said. Marcos is set to deliver an annual State of the Nation Address on Monday before lawmakers during the opening of the 20th Congress. "We call on everyone to respect the Supreme Court and place their trust in our institutions,' Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said.
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Thailand F-16 fighter bombs targets in Cambodia as border clashes escalate
A Thai F-16 fighter jet bombed targets in Cambodia on Thursday, both sides said, as weeks of tension over a border dispute escalated into clashes that have killed at least two civilians. Of the six F-16 fighter jets that Thailand readied to deploy along the disputed border, one of the aircraft fired into Cambodia and destroyed a military target, the Thai army said. Both countries accused each other of starting the clash early on Thursday. "We have used air power against military targets as planned," Thai army deputy spokesperson Richa Suksuwanon told reporters. Thailand also closed its border with Cambodia. Cambodia's defense ministry said the jets dropped two bombs on a road, and that it "strongly condemns the reckless and brutal military aggression of the Kingdom of Thailand against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Cambodia." The skirmishes came after Thailand recalled its ambassador to Cambodia late Wednesday and said it would expel Cambodia's envoy in Bangkok, after a second Thai soldier in the space of a week lost a limb to a landmine that Bangkok alleged had been laid recently in the disputed area. Thailand's foreign ministry said Cambodian troops fired "heavy artillery" on a Thai military base on Thursday morning and also targeted civilian areas including a hospital, leading to civilian casualties. "The Royal Thai Government is prepared to intensify our self-defense measures if Cambodia persists in its armed attack and violations upon Thailand's sovereignty," the ministry said in a statement. Thai residents including children and the elderly ran to shelters, built of concrete and fortified with sandbags and car tires, in the Surin border province. "How many rounds have been fired? It's countless," an unidentified woman told the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) while hiding in the shelter as gunfire and explosions were heard intermittently in the background. Cambodia's foreign ministry said Thailand's air strikes were "unprovoked" and called on its neighbor to withdraw its forces and "refrain from any further provocative actions that could escalate the situation." For more than a century, Thailand and Cambodia have contested sovereignty at various undemarcated points along their 817-kilometer land border, which has led to skirmishes over several years and at least a dozen deaths, including during a weeklong exchange of artillery in 2011. Tensions were reignited in May following the killing of a Cambodian soldier during a brief exchange of gunfire, which escalated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis and now has triggered armed clashes. A Thai soldier who was injured after stepping on a landmine is airlifted to a hospital in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, on Wednesday. | ROYAL THAI ARMY / via AFP-JIJI The clashes began early Thursday near the disputed Ta Moan Thom temple along the eastern border between Cambodia and Thailand, around 360 km from the Thai capital Bangkok. "Artillery shell fell on people's homes," Sutthirot Charoenthanasak, district chief of Kabcheing in Surin province, said, describing the firing by the Cambodian side. "Two people have died," he added, noting that district authorities had evacuated 40,000 civilians from 86 villages near the border to safer locations. Thailand's military said Cambodia deployed a surveillance drone before sending troops with heavy weapons to an area near the temple. Cambodian troops opened fire and two Thai soldiers were wounded, a Thai army spokesperson said, adding that Cambodia had used multiple weapons, including rocket launchers. A spokesperson for Cambodia's defense ministry, however, said there had been an unprovoked incursion by Thai troops and that Cambodian forces had responded in self-defense. Thailand's acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said the situation was delicate. "We have to be careful," he told reporters. "We will follow international law." An attempt by Thai premier Paetongtarn Shinawatra to resolve the recent tensions via a call with Cambodia's influential former Prime Minister Hun Sen, the contents of which were leaked, kicked off a political storm in Thailand, leading to her suspension by a court. Hun Sen said in a Facebook post that two Cambodian provinces had come under shelling from the Thai military. Thailand this week accused Cambodia of placing landmines in a disputed area that injured three soldiers. Phnom Penh denied the claim and said the soldiers had veered off agreed routes and triggered a mine left behind from decades of war. Cambodia has many landmines left over from its civil war decades ago, numbering in the millions according to de-mining groups. But Thailand maintains that landmines have been placed at the border area recently, which Cambodia has described as baseless allegations.
