Your daily round-up of today's news...
- The Chinese Embassy in Manila warns that the US support for the Philippines "will lead nowhere". This comes after the US defense chief assures support to the Philippines following China's aggressive tactics in the West Philippine Sea.
- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos will attend this year's APEC meeting in the US state of California this November.
- The Philippine government imposed a Level 3 crisis alert for Filipinos living in Libya.
- All roadwork and mall-wide sales are banned along EDSA and select areas from August 17 to September 10 in preparation for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
- The United Nations finds that war crimes in Myanmar have dramatically increased under the military junta.
- Eight regional leaders have agreed to form an alliance to fight the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest during a summit in Brazil.
- Hundreds of firefighters are battling to contain forest fires in Portugal.
- The woman at the center of a deadly mushroom lunch in Australia broke her silence. Erin Patterson, a woman in Victoria who may have served friends a lunch containing deadly mushrooms, killing three of them, spoke out.
- An American female named Kimberly Winter broke the Guinness World Record for the loudest burp (female) at a record of 107.3 decibels.
- The Pokemon franchise announced two new animated web shows coming soon such as the Trading Card Game-inspired Path to the Peak cartoon shorts and the Paldean Winds web anime.
- SM Entertainment responds to death threats against aespa member Winter and explained why police came to her building.
- Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland will battle in the main event of the UFC 293 match.
- SEC commissioner Greg Sankey expressed "sadness" over the PAC-12's brink of collapse following Washington and Oregon's announcement to migrate to Big Ten.
- Live Nation antitrust investigation sparks investor class action lawsuit.
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