In today\u2019s newsletter: the former Philippines president was arrested and taken to The Hague after a tense standoff. It\u2019s a much needed win for the international criminal court \u2013 but success is far from a given<\/p>\n
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Last Tuesday, chaos erupted at Manila\u2019s main airport as authorities arrested the Philippines\u2019 79-year-old former president Rodrigo Duterte, who had arrived from Hong Kong. An arrest warrant issued in secret by the international criminal court (ICC) accused him of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in killings during his brutal \u201cwar on drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n
Benefits <\/strong><\/em>| Keir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK\u2019s most severely disabled people<\/a>, with an overhaul that could see more than 600,000 benefit claimants lose out on an average of \u00a3675 a month.<\/p>\n Ukraine <\/strong><\/em>| Donald Trump has said he plans to discuss ending the war in Ukraine with Vladimir Putin <\/a>on Tuesday and that negotiators have already discussed \u201cdividing up certain assets\u201d. \u201cWe will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,\u201d Trump said, when asked about concessions.<\/p>\n Space <\/strong><\/em>| A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station<\/a> will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, Nasa has said. Barry \u201cButch\u201d Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut after a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft arrived at the ISS early on Sunday.<\/p>\n Business <\/strong><\/em>| Buy-to-let has become the largest single type of business in the UK<\/a> \u2013 nearly four times as prevalent as fast food takeaways or hairdressers.<\/p>\n Healthcare <\/strong><\/em>| The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an \u201coverdiagnosis\u201d of some mental health conditions<\/a> as well as \u201ctoo many people being written off\u201d \u2013 factors he said were key to the government\u2019s welfare measures.<\/p>\n