FACT CHECK: Video of Baste Duterte calling out Benny Abante dozing off is AI-generated

Rappler - Oct 7, 2026

Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte did not make the remark; it was impeachment court presiding officer Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero who noticed that Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante was dozing off

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The European Union’s top trade mandarins depart for Beijing on Wednesday for two days of intensive negotiations but expectations in Brussels are measured as to what the talks will deliver. Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s trade chief, will meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on Thursday and Friday – three months after their last encounter in Brussels, when the Europeans set an October deadline for signs of a rebalancing in the trading relationship. Non-stop working-level talks have proven...

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Cheshire dad, 39, told he had two years to live after discovering 'widow-maker'

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How just 10 people are behind hundreds of 'soul-destroying' crimes devastating local shops

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Rochdale's £2.50 bus ride is the best thing to cross the Pennines since Eric Cantona

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