FRANCISCO S. TATAD
DUBAI: A flurry of world headlines—from the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Manchester, to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s call on her European allies to stop relying on “others,” following the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Brussels last week, to the latest controversy surrounding US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s relations with the Russians—have caused much of the world’s attention to shift away from the hot-button issues in the Philippines. But some Filipinos who spotted me at the Dubai international airport on Monday on my way home from Budapest were anxious to know more about President Rodrigo Duterte’s martial law in Mindanao, whose coverage he threatens to extend into the Visayas and Luzon.