Let's Do The News! (February 18, 2022)

                                                   

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Carlos Zarate wants the PH Department of Agriculture probed for its pro-importations policy.

- The Commission of Human Rights lauded the Quezon City government for organizing an LGBTQI event last February 12th.

- Presidential Candidate Vicente Sotto III warns Filipinos "you'll never be able to revise history".

- Presidential Candidate Bongbong Marcos vows support to Filipino investors and pushes for solar panels to address the country's energy problems.

- The death toll from the Brazil landslides and floods jumped to 105 with 140 are reported missing.

- Canadian police are set for imminent action to clear trucker protests.

- Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte offers deep apologies to people in Indonesia over colonial violence.

- A strong winter storm struck the US Central, spreading freezing rain, sleet, ice, and snow from the Central Plains to the Midwest and the Great Lakes.

- The U.S. adds China's Tencent and Alibaba to the list of "notorious markets".

- The last native speaker of a Chilean indigenous language dies.

- Malawi declares polio outbreak, the first in Africa in nearly a decade.

- Porsche adds the T variant on the Macan crossover.

- Bushiroad announces win in a first civil suit for defamation. The company is pursuing individuals for online harassment of talent and VOs.

- IOC president Thomas Bach was disturbed by Kamila Valieva's meltdown at the Beijing Olympics in the wake of a doping scandal that rocked the 15-year-old's entourage.

TTFN.