Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Let's Do The News! (August 14, 2024)

  

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

- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos approved the creation of the cabinet cluster for education.

- The police chief and six others were wounded at the explosion of the police station at Pampanga.

- Carlos Yulo, the first Philippine Olympian to score two gold medals at the recently concluded Paris 2024 Olympics, delivered last night's speech at the Malacanang in front of his fellow athletes.

- The BIR presented the tax evasion case against Alice Guo, who was stripped from her mayoral position by the Office of the Ombudsman after a guilty verdict for gross misconduct.

- US President Joe Biden urges Israel and Hamas to reach the Gaza ceasefire. Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, postponed plans to visit the region. Iran says it will retaliate against Israel for the death of a Hamas leader in Tehran.

- Monkeypox is declared a public health emergency in Africa.

- YouTube is deactivating AdSense accounts for Russian creators and stopping monetization.

- Starbucks names Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol as its new CEO.

- Pagani unveiled the last one-off Zonda, the Arrivederci.

- The Naran hypercar will premiere at this month's Salon Prive.

- Paramount has shut down its television studios as part of the Skydance merger, losing 2K jobs.

The new K-Pop girl group MADEIN will make its debut this autumn.

- Conor McGregor will not fight in the UFC this year, the league's boss Dana White said after the season debut of "Dana White's Contender Series". While he was optimistic that McGregor would compete again for the promotion, White clarified that a fight with Michael Chandler would not happen before the end of the year.

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