Thursday, November 23, 2023

Let's Do The News! (November 23, 2023)

                               

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- Senator Imee Marcos blasts lawmakers urging the Philippine government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court's investigation of the Duterte administration's drug war, saying the Philippines can take care of its own judicial process.

- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos flies to Tacloban and General Santos following the massive flooding in Northern Samar and the strong earthquake that hit Mindanao while he was in the US last week.

- The Department of Foreign Affairs is confident that the Hamas hostages' release period "could be extended".

- Exit polls from the Dutch parliamentary election put the Freedom party, led by Anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders, well ahead of its rivals.

- Relatives of the hostages held in Gaza wait to see who could be freed.

- Rescue workers are closing in on over 40 workers trapped under a collapsed tunnel in India.

- Two people were killed inside a vehicle that exploded at a bridge between the US and Canada in Niagara Falls.

- Mick Schumacher will race an Alpine Hypercar at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans.

- Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay cites status as 'white billionaire' for his 2014 arrest. The longtime Colts owner pleaded guilty in September 2014 to one misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

-  Actresses Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera have dropped out from the next Scream movie installment, moments after Spyglass fired Melissa Barrera over social media posts she made amid the Israel-Hamas war.

TTFN.

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