Friday, August 20, 2021

Let's Do The News! (August 20, 2021)

               

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte does not stop the Commission on Audit from doing its mandated job.

- Filipino scientists warned that further warming could worsen extreme weather events in the Philippines.

- Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario said that President Rodrigo Duterte will leave a "shameful legacy" for undermining the 2016 arbitral award secured by his late predecessor Benigno Aquino III on the South China Sea issue.

- The Commission on Elections suspends voter registration in Metro Manila until the end of August.

- The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with US and NATO forces, according to a UN document, despite the militants vowing no revenge against opponents.

- A man who threatened to detonate a bomb on Washington's Capitol Hill surrendered to police, ending an hours-long standoff that rattled lawmakers still shaken by the January insurrection.

- All 24 units of the Hennessey Venom F5 are sold out.

- The next Fast and Furious movie will hit theaters this 2023.

- Activision announced Call of Duty Vanguard.

- A former Miami Hurricanes player got arrested in connection to the November 2006 shooting death of teammate Bryan Pata.

- Actor Danny DeVito lost his Twitter verification status after tweeting support for the Nabisco strike.

TTFN.

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