Thursday, February 14, 2019

Let's Do The News! (February 14, 2019)



- The National Youth Cross and a relic of St. John Paul II will be brought to different parishes across the Philippines on a pilgrim tour until December. A send-off mass was held at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines Chapel in Manila on Feb. 13 prior to the start of the pilgrim tour, which serves as one of the highlights for the Year of the Youth observance.

- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that the government is committed to provide treatment and rehabilitation to drug dependents to give them chance to start clean and productive lives.

- Rappler executive editor Maria Ressa said she will continue to do her job despite the legal cases she's facing. Ressa, whose online news website has published articles critical of the administration of President Duterte, was arrested Wednesday night by the National Bureau of Investigation on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 where she is facing a cyber libel complaint.

- At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 others injured when a passenger bus overturned on a highway in North Macedonia on Wednesday.

- The US space agency declared the Opportunity rover in Mars out of commission. The rover last contacted Earth in June last year, just before it was enveloped in the darkness of a global dust storm. The routine prompt commands that have been sent to Opportunity will now end. The mission has been declared over.

- A suicide car bomb on a Revolutionary Guards bus in southeastern Iran killed 27 troops in one of the deadliest attacks on the elite forces in years Wednesday.

- Fifteen people were killed in a stampede at an election campaign rally by President Muhammadu Buhari in southern Nigeria.

- Additional 1.7 million vehicles equipped with the Takata airbag have been recalled for potentially fsulty airbag inflators.

- Tesla adds Sentry mode to the Model 3 to further prevent theft and break-ins. It will also be applied in Model S and Model X as well.

- Winwyn Marquez admits breakup with Mark Herras.

- Actress Roence Santos arrested for marijuana possession,

TTFN!!!

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