Let's Do The News! (May 25, 2019)

- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that the land reform program has stopped.

- Peter Joemel Advincula, alias “Bikoy”, has been discharged from the Philippine National Police General Hospital and is now free to leave his detention cell after posting bail for his estafa cases.

- Congress has unanimously passed on third and final reading a bill seeking the creation of “Tourist Protection and Assistance Task Force”. House Bill 8981, principally authored by Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, got the nod of 158 House members who were present during the recent plenary voting.

- EU parliamentary elections entered a third day of voting as populists hoped to win a major breakthrough and disrupt European politics for the next five years. Voters from Malta, Slovakia and Latvia headed to the polls, with most of the bloc’s 28 member states — including big players Germany, France and Italy — to vote on Sunday.

- US President Donald Trump defends his his unprecedented decision to give his Justice Department chief unfettered access to the country’s deepest foreign intelligence secrets amid an outcry from the spy community and a veiled warning from the US intelligence czar.

- A US federal judge deals blow on the Trump administration's signature wall project, issuing a temporary injunction against using Defense Department funds to pay for barriers on the border with Mexico.

- Contenders to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister prepared to launch their leadership campaigns now, leaving Brexit shrouded in uncertainty. May will step down as Conservative leader on June 7 but stay on as prime minister until party members have chosen her successor, which will happen by July 20.

- The upcoming movie adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog got delayed to February.

- The live-action Akira film will hit theaters this May 2021 and shooting will take place in California.

- The grand prize winner of Uniqlo's Pokemon design contest got disqualified because the winner's design was previously sold as phone cases.

TTFN!!!