Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Let's Do The News! (May 30, 2023)

                                                                    

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- A magnitude 4.8 quake struck San Francisco, Surigao Del Norte early morning.

- Senator Robin Padilla has stepped down as executive vice president of the PDP-Laban to focus on his duties as a lawmaker but said he will remain a member of the party.

- Super Typhoon Betty is expected to leave the Philippine Area of Responsibility by Friday, according to PAGASA.

- The US Congress is racing against time to pass the US Debt Crisis bill made by the Biden administration and Republican leaders in order to avoid a catastrophic default by the June 5 deadline set by the US Treasury.

- Kemal Kilicdaroglu is facing pressure following his defeat to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday's elections.

- Uganda has signed its harshest anti-LGBT laws which include the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" which includes sex with a minor, having sex while HIV positive, and incest. It also criminalizes sex education for the gay community and made it illegal not to expose so-called perpetrators of aggravated homosexuality to the police.

- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai lost his bid to terminate the national security trial.

- The HSBC is renaming the British arm of the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank next month, according to reports.

- MINI unveiled a special Uncharted Edition of the Countryman Cooper S ALL4 variant featuring a special two-tone paint.

2023 MINI Countryman Cooper S ALL4 Uncharted Edition
2023 MINI Countryman Cooper S ALL4
Uncharted Edition

- Tennis player Sloane Stephens warns that racist abuse of athletes has "only gotten worse".

- Actor Johnny Depp has fractured his ankle.

TTFN.

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