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Today’s headlines: Bajo de Masinloc, Robin Padilla, Sara Duterte

Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:

• China fires water cannon on PH ship in Bajo de Masinloc 

The Philippine Coast Guard says Chinese vessels used water cannons and ‘dangerous maneuvers’ against  Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ships.

• Padilla to prosecutors: Don’t be ‘one-sided.’ Um, isn’t that the job? 

Prosecutors of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial respond to Senator-judge Robin Padilla’s call for the prosecution to not be ‘one-sided.’

• Sara Duterte wants the Senate to pay for her defense team’s meals? 

Vice President Sara Duterte writes to the Senate asking it to shoulder the food expenses of her defense lawyers in her impeachment trial.

• BSP senior official hits bank secrecy limits in Sara Duterte subpoenas 

A senior Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas official criticizes the country’s decades-old bank secrecy laws. This, after the House prosecution failed to examine Vice President Sara Duterte’s foreign currency deposits.

• Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role 

Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf prompt US intelligence analysts to investigate whether Moscow provided targeting information to Tehran. – Rappler.com