Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Let's Do The News! (August 6, 2019)



- According to PAGASA-DOST, expect moderate to heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds over Bataan, Pampanga, and Bulacan, while heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds are being experienced in Nueva Ecija and Zambales.



- The Philippine National Police ordered a thorough investigation on the operation of the 8chan website that is being linked to a mass shooting in the United States last weekend. The website, which allegedly posts racist posts and commentaries, is reportedly owned and maintained by an American who has been living in the Philippines for more than a decade.

- The Department of Health declared national dengue epidemic as the number of dengue cases all over the Philippines continues to rise.

- Vietnamese police broke up a brief protest outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi against Beijing’s maritime survey of an offshore block in the southeast Asian nation’s exclusive economic zone, reports told.

- The United States formally designates China a "currency manipulator" as trade war rages. Washington's sudden move came the day China allowed the yuan to fall below 7 to the dollar for the first time in about a decade — provoking US President Donald Trump's ire and sending global equities markets diving into the red.

- Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani warned in a live broadcast that a war with Iran is the mother of all wars.

- India revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighboring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly.

- The United States and the Taliban have resolved differences in peace talks over US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as over insurgent guarantees on cutting ties with other extremist groups, according to a Taliban official.

- High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended years ago for compiling a "hit list" and a "rape list" and questioned how he could have been allowed to buy a firearm that used in last weekend's attack, according to reports.

- Audi to unveil six new RS models by year's end.

- A new Gunpla factory will be opened this next year due to increased demand to such model kits.

TTFN!!!

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