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Justin Trudeau: Canada PM in 2001 'brownface' yearbook photo

Mr Trudeau admits photo was racist and says he recognises he "shouldn't have done it".

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore "brownface" at a private school gala nearly two decades ago, a photo obtained by Time Magazine shows;
the Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, says more than a thousand ex-prisoners prematurely freed under a controversial law in the Philippines will be captured "dead or alive" if they do not surrender before a Thursday deadline; and research suggests that more than a third of adults who normally keep an eye on the news in the UK are now actively avoiding it because of Brexit.

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