Your daily round-up of today's news...
- Former secretary Harry Roque was summoned by the PH Senate for the POGO hearing. Roque's bank documents were found following a raid in a POGO hub at Pampanga.
- The Alyansa Bantay Kapayapaan and Demokrasia group conducted a noise barrage in Liwasang Bonifacio to condemn China's claim to the West Philippine Sea. According to the lead convenor of the group, Rodolfo Villena Jr., this is also part of the celebration of the anniversary of the Philippines winning the 2016 Arbitral Ruling of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas.
- A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook the sea area of Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. It has a depth of 722 km. According to PHIVOLCS, Intensity IV was felt at Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental, and Intensity III at the City of Mati, Davao Oriental, and Gian, Sarangani.
- The town of Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, was placed under a state of calamity due to the dengue outbreak.
- NATO confirms support for Ukraine's "irreversible path" to membership. The summit in Washington also focused on the perceived threat from growing ties between Russia and China. The outgoing NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the alliance also pledged a minimum of forty billion dollars of military aid to Kyiv over the coming year.
- Actor George Clooney urged US President Joe Biden to drop his re-election bid. Biden reiterated his stance for his re-election bid.
- The Punirunes TV anime series based on Takara Tomy's line of virtual pet toys is back for its second season this October.
- Disney+ original animated series X-MEN '97 will have a third season in the works with What If...?'s Matthew Chauncey named as the head writer. The second season of the revived X-MEN cartoon was still in the works when former showrunner Beau DeMayo was sacked.
- SM Entertainment shares its update on a lawsuit against impostors stealing artists' private information.
- England has reached the Euro 2024 finals after a dramatic late goal seals a 2-1 win over the Netherlands.
- Tampa Bay Rays' Wander Franco was placed on the restricted list, a day after prosecutors in the Dominican Republic levied three charges against him for an alleged sexual relationship with a then-14-year-old girl, according to reports.
- The Alec Baldwin trial has finally begun, and the prosecution laid out its case to the jury. They claim Baldwin "played make believe" with the gun and "violated the cardinal rules of firearms safety" when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust."
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