Duterte pleads for calm after police fatally shoot troops
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has flown to the country’s volatile south to plead with military forces not to retaliate following the fatal police shootings of four soldiers, including two officers. The army chief has called the violence “a rubout.” President Rodrigo Duterte pledged an impartial government investigation of Monday’s violence in southern Jolo town and promised in a late-night address to military commanders that anyone found gui
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