Philippine VP Sara charged over Marcos assassination threat

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio was hit with a criminal charge on Tuesday over an alleged death threat against the country’s president, a key part of the case against her at her ongoing Senate impeachment trial. The charge of “grave threats” was filed on Tuesday afternoon in a Quezon City courtroom, Department of Justice spokesman Polo Martinez said. It stems from a National Bureau of Investigation criminal complaint filed in February 2025, months after a late-night news briefin...

By Agence France-Presse

Philippine VP Duterte hit with criminal charge over Marcos 'threat'

Sara Duterte had previously claimed to have hired an assassin to take out President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a former congressman cousin if she were killed.