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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: - Marcos among TIME’s most influential people of 2024 - Arnie Teves son ‘bribed’ Timor-Leste police for father’s special treatment – DOJ - Philippines: China is ‘source of tension,’ not trilateral summit - Marcos says e-trike, e-bike ban stays, but no penalty on violators for now - Prince William returns to public duties after wife Kate’s cancer revelation  https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/april-18-2024/

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00:00 Today on Rappler

00:13 Philippine President Marcos is named one of Time Magazine's most influential people.

00:18 The DOJ says a son of Arnie Tevez bribed him or less to police.

00:22 The Philippines tells China to reflect upon its actions, calling it "the source of tension

00:27 in the region."

00:28 President Marcos tells the MMDA not to penalize violators of the E-Trike ban for now.

00:34 And Britain's Prince William returns to public duties after his wife Princess Kate's cancer

00:39 revelation.

00:42 Time Magazine names Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. one of the 100 most influential

00:47 people of 2024.

00:49 Time writes, "Marcos, son and namesake of the late dictator, won the presidency in 2022

00:55 by whitewashing the family's legacy of plunder and human rights abuses through 'clever manipulation

01:01 of social media.'"

01:03 It adds the Marcos family's project to rehabilitate its image "resulted in other shifts."

01:09 Marcos' victory came more than three decades after the people power revolution ousted his

01:14 father, whose 21 years in office was marked by iron fist rule, human rights atrocities,

01:19 and plunder.

01:20 The Time 100 list also includes leaders Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Polish Prime Minister

01:26 Donald Tusk, Taiwan President-elect William Lai, and Yulia Navalny, widow of the late

01:31 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

01:36 The Justice Department says one of Arne Teves' sons allegedly bribed a member of Timor-Leste's

01:41 criminal investigation police in exchange for special treatment while in detention.

01:47 The expelled lawmaker was under Timor-Leste's custody after he was arrested for his alleged

01:51 crimes in the Philippines.

01:53 The DOJ says Teves' son offered a $2,000 bribe, or around P114,000, in exchange for so-called

02:01 security inside and outside Bacara Prison, where Teves is being held while waiting for

02:06 his extradition or deportation.

02:09 Amid the bribery allegation, the DOJ asked the Timor-Leste government for Teves' immediate

02:14 deportation.

02:15 DOJ Secretary Boyeng Remulia tells Teves, "Go home and face the court squarely.

02:21 Stop playing hide-and-seek with the law."

02:24 Teves is the alleged mastermind in the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Ruel de Gamo and

02:29 nine others.

02:32 The Philippines says China should reflect upon its actions in the South China Sea and

02:36 the West Philippine Sea, calling it the source of tension in the region.

02:41 This after Beijing claims the recent U.S.-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Leaders' Summit only amps up tensions

02:47 in the region.

02:48 Beijing also says it strongly opposes the practice of bloc politics by relevant countries.

02:54 In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs says the trilateral cooperation is

02:59 an "admirable aspiration that should not be considered a threat by any peace-loving

03:04 country."

03:05 On April 12, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine

03:10 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met in the White House for the first-ever trilateral

03:15 summit.

03:16 In a joint vision statement, the three countries expressed "serious concerns" over Chinese

03:21 actions in both the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

03:27 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. instructs the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

03:31 and local governments not to penalize e-bicycles and e-tricycles plying national roads in Metro

03:37 Manila.

03:38 He says more time is needed to educate the public about the ban, which will remain in

03:43 place.

03:44 In a post on X, Marcos says, "If they will be apprehended, the purpose is to inform them

03:49 about the roads they can ply, and remind them about new policies being enforced in order

03:54 to maintain order and safety in the streets."

04:03 The MMDA regulation released in February lists nearly two dozen roads where e-bikes, e-trikes,

04:09 tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuli-glig are prohibited beginning April.

04:16 Britain's Prince William returns to public duties for the first time since his wife Kate

04:21 revealed she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer.

04:25 In a video messaged last month, the Princess of Wales said tests taken following major

04:30 abdominal surgery she underwent in January had uncovered cancer.

04:35 William has been absent from official engagements since then, as the couple and their three

04:39 young children come to terms with the news.

04:42 Kate's office says she will return to public duties when her medical team says she is well

04:46 enough to do so.

04:48 Her illness comes at the same time William's father, King Charles, undergoes treatment

04:52 for an unspecified form of cancer.

04:55 He has also been absent from public duties since his diagnosis.

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