Friday, September 3, 2021

Let's Do The News! (September 3, 2021)

                          

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The Commission on Human Rights backs the Department of Natural Resources' call for a law to protect and conserve Philippine wetlands.

- The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission launches the agency's flagship program as talks of public funds misuse linger.

- The first batch of MRT-7 trains from South Korea will arrive in the Philippines next week.

- Foreign aid groups in Afghanistan are scrambling to maintain their operations, holding high-stakes talks with the Taliban.

- The United Nations has resumed humanitarian flights to Afghanistan.

- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga won't seek re-election after a year in office.

- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern called the recent mall stabbing attack in Auckland a terrorist attack.

- A recent study warns that rapid Arctic warming triggers extreme winter events in the United States.

- Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II for talks on Jerusalem.

- The US Federal Aviation Administration is grounding several Virgin Galactic flights after a space flight "mishap".

- Hurricane Ida killed at least 44 people in the New York area overnight.

TTFN.

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