- The human rights situation in the Philippines remains dire amid extrajudicial killings, attacks against political activists and journalists, and abuses committed during the armed conflict with the 54-year-old communist insurgency. The government has increasingly constricted democratic space by using the justice system to target leftist activist groups.
- Propus (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
PROPUS (Eta Geminorum). Gemini, the Twins, represented by Castor (Alpha Geminorum) and Pollux (Beta Gem) at its northern end, is anchored at the bottom by Alhena (Gamma) and at the southwest corner by a pair of similar stars, Tejat (Mu Gem) and our Propus, to which Bayer assigned the Greek letter Eta.