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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attempted a half-arsed apology for calling US President Barack Obama a "son of a whore", noting that he doesn't "want to quarrel with the most powerful country on the planet" - on which the Philippines is dependent for foreign aid money, help fighting Islamists in the south, and defense against China's expansion into traditional Philippine waters.  But at the same time, Duterte vowed to maintain his bloody crackdown on the alleged drug trade.  "We shall not be cowed.  We must press on," Duterte told a gathering on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Laos.  On Wednesday evening, Duterte will come face to face with President Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at ASEAN's gala dinner.  Obama already cancelled his one-on-one with Duterte, which has got to be alarming to anyone actually paying attention in reality in the poor, dependent nation.

And just how well is Duterte's "war on drugs" going?  Since unleashing extrajudicial and indiscriminate vigilante violence in the weeks since he became president, more than 2,400 people have been killed.  Recent victims include a 4-year-old girl out to get popcorn with her father and a 5-year-old shot to death in her family's store. 

Paris will soon open its first refugee camp, says Mayor Ann Hidalgo.  The facility is needed because of the large number of homeless asylum seekers from Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian war zones camping out on the streets of the City of Lights.  The first camp, for men, will take 90 people at first but then house 400 people for five to ten days to help them with their asylum paperwork.  Another facility for women and children will follow before the end of the year.  Meanwhile, Mayor Hidalgo is condemning the arson attack that gutted a planned center for 200 asylum seekers a suburb south-west of Paris.  "The people who did this should be utterly ashamed of themselves because if they think this is the way we express our country's values then they're quite wrong," she said on French TV.

Syrian volunteer emergency responders are accusing government forces of dropping chlorine gas barrel bombs on civilians in opposition-held suburbs of Aleppo.  The Syrian Civil Defense - a self-declared group, because the government won't aid people in rebel areas - says this attack happened in August.  A United Nations investigation concluded President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chlorine gas on at least two previous occasions, but Damascus has consistently denied it.

Turkey appears to have suffered its first fatalities in "Operation Euphrates Shield", Ankara's intervention policy in Syria's civil war:  Islamic State shelling killed two soldiers and injured at least five more in a rocket attack on Turkish tanks.  Turkish forces moved into northern Syria last week to push back IS and to prevent villages from being occupied by the Kurdish YPG, which gets help from the US but which Turkey considers to be a terrorist group in league with Kurdish separatists in its southeast.

The women who received the world's first face transplant has died.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says people returning from any area with a Zika Virus outbreak should practice safe sex for at least six months to avoid the risk of spreading the disease.  This is after doctors in Italy discovered the virus in the sperm of a man six months after he first had Zika symptoms.  Although it's not the first confirmation of Zika transmission through sex, the primary form of infection is from mosquito bites.

Nicaragua is granting political asylum to the former president of El Salvador Mauricio Funes, saying his life is in danger in his home country.  Funes says investigations into alleged financial wrongdoing and possible political corruption during his presidency is part of an "extreme right" plot to get him after he accused a former conservative president Francisco Flores of financial wrongdoing.  Flores died before going to trial.