A panel of International Criminal Court (ICC) pre-trial judges has unanimously confirmed charges of crimes against humanity against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, committing him to trial over his notorious "war on drugs." Prosecutors allege Duterte ordered or enabled the murder of at least 76 people — with rights groups putting the true death toll in the thousands — spanning his tenure as mayor of Davao City and later as national president between 2013 and 2018. The ruling makes Duterte the first Asian former head of state to be committed to trial at the ICC, though serious questions remain about whether the 81-year-old, reported to be in frail mental health, will ever appear in the dock at The Hague.