Thursday, September 19, 2019

Let's Do The News! (September 19, 2019)


- The Philippine National Police began deploying over a hundred of its tracker teams to re-arrest those who defied the Duterte administration's order for them to voluntarily return to prison.

- Tropical Depression Nimfa is expected to intensify into a storm while lingering in the northern Philippine Sea.

- The Department of Energy was urged by Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian to come up with short-to long-term mitigating measures that the country can lean on amid oil price shocks triggered by geopolitical events such as the drone strike on the facilities of giant oil producer Saudi Aramco last weekend.

- A congressman representing the farmers’ sector called for a total ban on pork importation and collection of food leftover as hog feed as well as other harsher measures to stop the entry of African swine fever in the Philippines

- 20 people were killed by a suicide bomb attack on a hospital in southern Afghanistan.

- France's foreign minister dismisses former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's request for asylum.

- Officials in Houston and surrounding communities say so far there have been no severe consequences as Tropical Depression Imelda deluged parts of Southeast Texas with rain.

- Indonesian authorities arrested 230 people suspected of starting fires that are spreading health-damaging haze across a large part of Southeast Asia.

-  New Pokemon Sword and Shield info on the radar! The glitch on the website turned out to be the reveal of a new Pokemon named Sirfetch'd

- NBA approves sale of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center to Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai.

- Lightweight boxer Ryan Garcia signed a multiyear deal with Golden Boy Promotions to extend his contract.

TTFN!!!

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