Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Let's Do The News! (April 16, 2024)

                       

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

- The Bank of the Philippine Islands notified its customers that their services are temporarily unavailable, particularly ATM withdrawals, CAM deposits, debit card purchases, BPI app, BPI online, and third-party apps.

- The second day of the transport strike organized by Manibela and PISTON groups is underway.

- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has officially stepped down and been replaced by his successor Lawrence Wong.

- Donald Trump testifies in his first criminal trial over his "hush money" accusations.

- US experts say all oceans are affected due to record heat as evidenced by coral bleaching.

- Police in Sydney say they are treating a knife attack at a church, which injured four people, as a "terrorist act". The stabbing attack occurred days after the mall attack that killed six people before the suspect was killed by the police. A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest, and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church.

- Alfa Romeo renamed the Milano crossover into Junior because of the Italian government law prohibiting the presentation of a foreign-made product as coming from Italy.

2025 Alfa Romeo Junior
2025 Alfa Romeo Junior

- Abarth unveiled the Classiche 1300 OT which is based on the Alfa Romeo 4C. Only five will be made.

Abarth Classiche 1300 OT

- The first-ever Maserati GranCabrio Folgore was unveiled, offering the same 750bhp electric powertrain from its hardtop equivalent but now with an open-top setting.

2025 Maserati GranCabrio Folgore

- Action star Keanu Reeves will voice Shadow the Hedgehog in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 live-action movie. Krysten Ritter, Alyla Browne, James Wolk, Sofia Pernas, Cristo Fernández, and Jorma Taccone are joining the cast.

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is "pretty confident" the league will expand to 16 teams by 2028 and that the goal is to bring in a 14th team for 2026.

- Longtime New York Yankees radio voice John Sterling, age 85, announced his retirement.

- Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before the fatal Rust film set shooting, was sentenced to 18 months.

TTFN.

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