- Consultations with various transportation stakeholders are now ongoing as the House transportation panel wants to draw up a one-year roadmap to decongest traffic on EDSA.
- The Commission on Elections will set stricter party-list accreditation requirements in future polls.
- Monsoon rains over the Philippines improved the water level at Angat Dam in Bulacan.
- Senator Bong Go defended President Duterte's remarks that the Gilas Pilipinas will lose in the middle of this month's FIBA World Cup.
- Hong Kong's airport cancelled all flights with authorities blaming demonstrators for the disruption of one of the world’s busiest terminals, a dramatic escalation of anti-government protests that have roiled the Asian financial hub.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was accused for war crimes in the past, was named as the presidential candidate for the opposition nationalist Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party.
- Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's Brexit Party, blasted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle along with other members of the royal family in a speech in Australia according to reports.
- The Portuguese government-imposed fuel rationing at petrol stations recently as fuel-tanker drivers started a strike and it promised to prevent the labor action from paralyzing the country at the height of the tourist season.
- 56 people were killed in a landslide that buried more than a dozen villages in southwestern Myanmar.
- Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 elections slammed the Trump administration for spreading conspiracy theories regarding the suicide of Jeffery Epstein.
- Chinese brand ambassadors of fashion labels from Coach to Givenchy have severed ties with the companies over products which they said violated China’s sovereignty by identifying Hong Kong and Taiwan as countries.
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