Philippines President Duterte has given his soldiers carte blanche to commit the most heinous of crimes and that he will take responsibility if his soldiers violate citizens’ rights in Mindanao, including by committing rape. “I’ll be with you all the way. If you go down, I go down.

The believer begins to prepare their state of mind and heart and body for the blessed month of Ramadan. This preparedness needs contemplation of sorts…often delving into the heart to sort through the undesired traits and feelings that somehow drift and simmer in the heart starting with a black spot on the heart and slowly multiplying, Allah forbid it remains a permanent mark.

On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and US President Donald Trump inaugurated the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (GCCEI), a facility that will monitor “extremist messaging” in real time... The center — named “Etidal,” or “moderation” —is established under international cooperation to confront and prevent extreme ideologies by monitoring and analyzing them, and to promote a culture of moderation.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to a document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia.”