Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Let's Do The News! (September 21, 2021)

                                      

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. defends Australia's "prerogative" to acquire nuclear submarines via a trilateral partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom.

- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has received a report from the Department of Justice on 52 cases of deaths in illegal drugs operations.

- Senator Ronald dela Rosa insists that there were no crimes against humanity in the Philippines as its justice system is working.

- A new low-pressure area is spotted in the waters of Palawan, according to PAGASA.

- Manila city to make loud exhausts illegal.

- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges rich countries to deliver the promised 100 billion US dollars a year for climate action in developing countries.

- The Biden administration announced that it would double the number of refugees it will accept in the coming fiscal year amid rising pressure from people fleeing Afghanistan and other countries.

- Afghan women are outraged by new Taliban restrictions on work.

- BMW EV range to remain at 600km.

- K-Pop singer AleXa to sing the US national anthem at an LA Dodgers game.

- Over 500 female athletes urging the US Supreme Court to protect abortion rights in a case involving Mississippi's Republican-backed bid to ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion opponents have asked the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized a woman's right to end a pregnancy and made abortion legal nationwide after it was outlawed in certain states.

- TV game show Everybody, Sing! to finally air shelved episodes.

- The mother of deceased artist Bree Jonson appealed to billionaire Roberto Ongpin not to use his influence to protect his son, whom she feared might have left the Philippines. Ongpin was the last person seen with Jonson before she was found dead in the bathroom of their resort room in La Union last September 18.

TTFN.

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