• “My only sin is the extrajudicial killings,” President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, above, said in a speech. That startling admission, apparently a reference to his bloody war on drugs, could add momentum to two cases filed against Mr. Duterte at the International Criminal Court. [The New York Times]

• An Iraqi man and six other people were arrested in the Netherlands and charged with plotting a terrorist attack at a “large event.” [The Guardian]

• Israel’s leader told the U.N. General Assembly that Iran is keeping a “secret atomic warehouse” in downtown Tehran, though he offered no proof. [The New York Times]

• Italy’s populist government unveiled a budget that would increase spending and aim to “abolish poverty.” It puts the country on a potential collision course with European powers that want it to reduce its debt. [BBC News]

• A prominent colonel in Russia’s military intelligence service is one of the men accused of poisoning a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain this year, according to a group of investigative journalists. [The New York Times]

• A late passenger at Dublin’s airport chased down his plane, shouting for the pilot to wait. Arrested on the tarmac, he didn’t make the flight. [BBC News]