• President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines acknowledged the possibility of abuses in his war on drugs, apparently bowing to public anger over the killing of a high school student last week. [Reuters]

• The U.S. is sharply reducing visa services to Russia because of Moscow’s order to cut its staff. [The New York Times]

• In Finland, an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker accused of killing two women and injuring half a dozen other people in the country’s first jihadist terrorist attack appears in court by videolink. [The New York Times]

• A Danish inventor who had denied involvement in the disappearance of a Swedish journalist now says that she died on his submarine and he buried her at sea. [The New York Times]

• Malaysia’s foreign minister apologized after the Indonesian flag was shown upside down in materials for the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. [Jakarta Globe]

• Cambridge University Press abruptly reversed its decision to bow to censorship of a leading journal on contemporary China. [The New York Times]

• Archaeologists from China and Mongolia discovered a nearly 2,000-year-old inscription carved into a mountain that recounts a key military victory of the Han dynasty over a marauding army of Huns. [South China Morning Post]