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Manila Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday warned the European Union to stop pressuring South-East Asian countries over the death penalty, threatening to"hang all of you." Duterte noted that most member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have capital punishment and their leaders were being pressured by the European Union on the issue."You fools, stop interfering with us," Duterte said at an early morning press conference after returning to Manila from visits to Myanmar and Thailand."No one will tell you, so I will tell you, you are all fools.""I will just be happy to hang you. If I have the preference, I'll hang all of you," he added."You are putting us down. You are exerting pressure in every country with the death penalty." (dpa)
