PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has recalled the Philippine ambassador and consuls to Canada after Ottawa failed to comply with his May 15 deadline to take back the tons of garbage it exported to Manila in 2013.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Twitter said that "at midnight last night, letters for the recall of our ambasador and consuls to Canada went out" and were expected to be back in the country "in a day or so."

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