Thursday, March 28, 2024

Let's Do The News! (March 28, 2024)

         

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

- ICYMI: Thailand became the first ASEAN country to legalize same-sex marriage.

- Two bodies from the Baltimore bridge collapse were found in the water.

- At least five were killed and others hurt after a Flixbus coach overturned on a German motorway.

- Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu backtracks on talks with the US following the Rafah offensive, moments after the UNSC's resolution vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Washington wants to discuss Israel's invasion plans.

- UN investigators accuse the Burmese military of being behind an online hate campaign against the Rohingya minority ahead of a brutal crackdown in 2017.

- The Kia EV9 wins 2024 World Car of the Year. It also won the 2024 World Electric Vehicle Award as well.

- Toyota fully acquired Primearth EV Energy from Panasonic. The acquisition prompted the renaming of the company as Toyota Battery.

- Volvo will stop making diesel engines and set to become an EV maker by 2030.

- Lola Cars joins the Formula E grid in the 2025 season with a technical partnership with Yamaha.

- Gakuen IDOLM@STER app game casts Reina Kawamura as Hiro Shinosawa.

- The first set of contestants for the upcoming KBS reality show MAKE MATE 1 was announced.

- The UFC's first match in Saudi Arabia this June 22 is headlined by the middleweight match between Khamzat Chimaev and Robert Whittaker.

- Bruce Springsteen becomes the first international songwriter to be awarded a UK Ivors Academy Fellowship.

TTFN.

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