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Detained former president Rodrigo Duterte’s lawyers are working on a plea for his interim release but have yet to decide when to file it before the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to his lead counsel Nicholas Kaufman.

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President Marcos is not stopping any of his officials from attending the second Senate probe on the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte, a Palace official said yesterday.

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