Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Let's Do The News! (June 20, 2023)

                                                                                      

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The late former senator Rodolfo Biazon has been given full military honors at his funeral.

- The Department of Trade and Industry is urging to ban the sale of lato-lato toys

- The PH Department of Health plans to make use of nursing graduates who didn't pass the board exam as an additional workforce in the country's healthcare system. DOH Secretary Teddy Herbosa clarified that nursing graduates need to get 70-74% of the scores in the said exam.

- The submersible craft that carries five tourists who want to see the sunken Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean has disappeared. According to the Boston Coast Guard, they are working around the clock to salvage the passengers who disappeared last Sunday.

- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that Sudan is descending into chaos at an unprecedented speed, and has called on the international community to act.

- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

- Nine Egyptians suspected of involvement in people trafficking linked to the Greek migrant boat disaster have pleaded not guilty in court.

- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is holding a government meeting to address child sexual abuse in the wake of allegations against the late Johnny & Associates founder Johnny Kitagawa.

- The Mercedes-Benz E-Class W214 gained its Estate variant.

2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate

- Subaru develops EyeSight ADAS for manual transmission-equipped vehicles called MT EyeSight. It will be equipped on the BRZ later this fall.

- New Zealand refused to appear for the second half of their friendly match against Qatar in Austria amid racism allegations. It was one of two such occurrences in Austria on Monday, with Ireland's football association saying its under-21 team had abandoned a match against Kuwait's Olympic side after a Kuwaiti player used racist language toward an Irish substitute.

- Actor Jim Tweto dies in a plane crash. He was 68.

- Veteran fashion designer Christian Espiritu dies at the age of 89.

- ABS-CBN's noontime show IT'S SHOWTIME will simultaneously air on GMA's GTV this July 1st. Because of the new and yet unnamed noontime show by TVJ and former Eat Bulaga presenters airing on TV5 soon, IT'S SHOWTIME will no longer air on TV5 after June 30.

TTFN.

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