Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Let's Do The News! (October 5, 2021)

                                                

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The Philippine Bar Association assailed as unconstitutional the directive of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for members of the executive department to ignore Senate summons and directives.

- Lawyer Larry Gadon filed his certificate of candidacy for senator for the May 2022 elections.

- Only northern Palawan is under signal no. 1 as tropical depression Lannie moves to El Nido Bay, according to PAGASA.

- China and other like-minded countries voiced concern over racism and racial discrimination in some countries.

- Facebook services were restored after a global outage.

- World leaders were on the defensive after the release of the Pandora Papers revealing how heads of state use offshore tax haven to stash assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

- China sent 56 jets into the Taiwan defence zone in another record incursion.

- Geely begins satellite production for its autonomous vehicles.

- Umpire Joe West to retire from Major League Baseball after the postseason.

TTFN.

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