Let's Do The News! (September 30, 2021)

                                             

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- According to the recent PDEA data, over 6,000 drug suspects were killed while over 13,000 more were arrested since the start of the Duterte administration.

- The Senate witness who testified that Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation's management ordered the repacking of substandard and dirty face shields that were delivered to the government rejected claims that he was bribed y the office of Senator Risa Hontiveros.

- Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is alarmed over the possibility that the government entered into a "midnight deal" to extend the service contract of the Malaympaya project.

- The Department of Foreign Affairs is set to lodge a diplomatic protest against China's "alarming" activities in the West Philippine Sea.

- The last of the 39 trapped Canadian miners have been climbed out and they're all safe.

- The US Senate is set to vote tomorrow in a bid to avert a government shutdown.

- Fumio Kishida, the former Japanese foreign minister set to succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, vows to formulate a stimulus plan and let people benefit from growth.

- Tunisia named Najla Bouden as the country's first female prime minister.

- The all-new, five-seater Jeep Grand Cherokee has been unveiled alongside the first-ever Grand Cherokee 4xe PHEV variant.

- Subaru teases the all-new WRX S4.

- Five-time Olympic swimming medalist Klee Keller pleaded guilty to a felony charge for storming the US Capitol during the January 6 riot and faces 21 to 27 months in prison.

TTFN.