The foul-mouthed Philippines president, who once called the pope a “son of a bitch” and told Barack Obama to “go to hell,” says he has promised God he won’t swear again. Duterte made the pledge on Thursday when he arrived at his southern hometown of Davao city after a trip to Japan. “And I said ‘Who is this?’ So, of course, ‘it’s God’,” he said. “So, I promise God to ... not express slang, cuss words and everything. When asked for his message for a Filipino beauty queen who won the recent Miss International pageant, Duterte said he was proud.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2016 14:58 UTC