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The Philippines and China have engaged in frequent clashes in the crucial waterway, which Beijing claims in nearly its entirety despite an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.

Independence supporter Camille Charbonneau told AFP she has "no hatred of Canada or hatred of English," but wants "an assertion of a distinct people with a different culture."

The president’s assertion was affirmed shortly afterward by two senior South Korean officials in a media briefing.

When Theodora pressed her on her assertion that she had never heard her husband was bipolar, she replied, “He had a drug addiction.”

Mondelez repeated its assertion that the outlook was given “in the context of greater-than-usual volatility, including due to geopolitical, trade and regulatory uncertainty and commodity prices.”