Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday called the New York Times an "asshole" and rejected fresh criticism of his deadly drug war, on the eve of him hosting an Asian summit.
Duterte let loose with the crude insult two days after the major US newspaper wrote an editorial headlined: "Let the World Condemn Duterte", and which slammed the killings of thousands of Filipino drug suspects.
"New York Times, asshole," Duterte told reporters at Malacanang presidential palace minutes after receiving Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the first of nine Southeast Asian leaders to arrive for the two-day summit starting Friday.
Duterte, responding to a query about the editorial, also accused the newspaper of ignoring US military abuses around the world and said the paper should stop publishing.
The editorial came out after a Filipino lawyer this week formally asked the International Criminal Court to charge Duterte and 11 other Filipino officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity over the drug killings.
source: yahoo.com
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