• President Rodrigo Duterte met with thousands of protesters after his state of the nation address, becoming enraged when some audience members heckled him. He threatened to have protesters who disturbed the peace shot “even if I have to bury thousands of Filipinos.” [Associated Press]

• The parents of Charlie Gard, the ill British infant, abandoned efforts to artificially prolong the child’s life. [The New York Times]

• The Afghan Taliban claimed that a bombing that killed dozens of people in Kabul was aimed at the National Directorate of Security, but security officials said that most victims were civilian workers for the Ministry of Mines. [The New York Times]

• The Pakistani Taliban said it was targeting police officers, but only nine of the 25 people killed by its suicide bomber in the eastern city of Lahore were policemen. [Al Jazeera]

• The Vietnamese activist Tran Thi Nga goes on trial today, as Hanoi continues its crackdown on bloggers and dissidents. [Asian Correspondent]

• Sun Zhengcai, a Politburo member now in freefall, is being investigated by the Communist Party for suspected “grave violations of discipline,” a term that can include corruption, abuses of power and disloyalty. [The New York Times]