Let's Do The News! (January 9, 2024)

                                                 

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

- About 1.3 million Nazareno believers flocked to the Quirino Grandstand for this year's Traslacion.

- A Magnitude 6.7 quake rattled Sarangani province in Davao Occidental.

- Pope Francis calls for a universal ban on surrogacy as he included the "commercialization" of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. The Pope warns that 2024 had dawned at a time when peace was “increasingly threatened, weakened and in some part lost."

- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel amid fears the Gaza conflict could escalate in the region. Israeli forces killed Wissam-al-Tawil, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Radwan force in Lebanon while 250 people were killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours.

- United Airlines finds bolts in need of "tightening" during inspections of 737 Max 9, after a door plug fell from an Alaska Airlines plane.

- UK PM Rishi Sunak would "strongly support" the honors committee reviewing whether former Post Office boss Paula Vennells should be stripped of CBE.

- Announced at the 2024 CES, Sony Honda Mobility, makers of the AFEELA electric car, teams up with Polyphony Digital in vehicle development. The AFEELA electric car is set to make its video game debut in Gran Turismo 7 soon.

- Volkswagen teases the Golf Mk8.5 GTi.

- The Netflix original series Gyeongseong Creature will return for its second season soon.

- German football legend Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as both a player and manager, passed away at the age of 78.

- Michigan beats Washington 34-13 to win its first CFP title since 1997.

- Terrence Shannon Jr. filed for a temporary restraining order that demands his school "immediately reinstate" the Illinois star who was suspended indefinitely from all team activities last month following an arrest on a rape charge, according to reports.

- Drag club owner RS Francisco accepts Pura Luka Vega's class act. Francisco admits he is also confused with pronouns for non-binary. Pura Luka Vega was controversial last year when he dressed as Nazareno while singing the remix of "Ama Namin" in a nightclub. Several senators and church leaders condemned Pura Luka Vega and declared persona non grata by seventeen LGUs. He was arrested and jailed but was also released on bail.

TTFN.