Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Let's Do The News! (September 14, 2021)

                                 

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The Philippine Supreme Court acquits and orders the release of an inmate arrested for selling and possessing illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Dagupan City in 2013 and convicted by the trial court in 2016.

- The Philippines targets beating tuberculosis by 2030.

- Another group of lawyers are opposing Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque's nomination to the UN's International Law Commission.

- Flood and storm surge warnings are in place as Hurricane Nicholas is heading to the US state of Texas.

- A magnitude 6.2 quake rattled off Japan's Ibaraki prefecture.

- Pope Francis voiced "shame" over the massacre of over 100,000 Slovak Jews in the Holocaust.

- UN chief Antonio Guterres urged the international community to engage with the Taliban and provide a "lifeline" of aid for Afghans.

- 80 people were killed in Sudan floods.

- Nissan unveiled the GT-R T-Spec special variants, in Premium and Track edition engineered by NISMO configurations. It will be limited to 100 units.

- K-Pop boy group BTS visited South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House for a Ceremony of Appointment as Special Envoy.

- American Football player Parys Haralson died at the age of 37.

TTFN.

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