Thursday, August 12, 2021

Let's Do The News! (August 12, 2021)

         

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The Department of Education (DepEd) is eyeing the implementation of a "modified enrollment process" that will take place on the 16th of August.

- The Commission of Human Rights condemns and probes the killing of s 12-year-old girl in Camarines Sur.

- Pope Francis appointed Bishop Moises Cuevas as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga.

- The Commission on Audit said that the Department of Health scrimped then wasted billions of pesos in public funds.

- Philippine maritime agencies and the US Coast Guard have concluded their interagency training.

- A magnitude 5.5 quake rocked the Fiji region.

- Eight feared dead as tourist helicopter crashes in the Russian far east.

- Turkish rescuers evacuated a regional hospital and plucked stranded villagers off rooftops as flash floods and mudslides swept across the Black Sea coast.

- Asteroid Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but there is a slight chance of hitting the Earth, according to NASA.

- The fight against the Greek forest fires continues as locals count the cost of devastation.

- Lamborghini teases the revived Countach.

- Tanner Foust signs with McLaren Racing for its maiden Extreme E campaign next season.

TTFN.

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