Let's Do The News! (November 15, 2024)

         

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

- The PH Department of Transportation targets the December groundbreaking for the Taguig City Integrated Terminal Exchange.

- Parts of Cagayan Valley remained flooded due to Typhoon Ofel while parts of Bicol are bracing for Typhoon Pepito.

- Adjusted mall hours in Metro Manila will begin this Monday. According to the MMDA, malls will open from 1100 to 2300 hours Manila time.

- The brother of the late Mohamed Al Fayed, Salah, also abused Harrods staff, according to female witnesses.

- The boss of the Bank of England says the UK must "rebuild relations" with the EU in some of his strongest comments yet on Brexit. 

- US President-Elect Donald Trump named former presidential competitor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as US health secretary. RFK became infamous for his COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories. During the election period, he ran for president but withdrew his campaign to support Donald Trump's re-election campaign. RFK got a shoutout from Donald Trump's victory speech as Trump said RFK could "make America healthy again".

- At least ten people died and others were hurt in a fire at a retirement home in the Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro.

- Global health advocates press Cephied for a cheaper mpox diagnostic test to help tackle low testing rates in poorer nations affected by the virus.

- The first-ever Acura ADX compact crossover was unveiled.

2025 Acura ADX

- Ken Akamatsu was named as the parliamentary vice-minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as well as Reconstruction.

- Satire site The Onion buys InfoWars. The sale drew support from families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims.

- Bugatti's W16 Mistral smashed the open-top road car speed record with 282mph top speed.

- Jaguar previews its all-electric GT car as it gears up for its 2026 comeback.

- Newborn Italian supercar company Giamaro will unveil its first vehicle this May 22, 2025. It will be powered by a V12 quad turbo.

- Seiyuu Ibuki Kido announces her marriage.

- K-pop boy group OMEGA X cancels their US tour.

- The National Telecommunications Commission is set to commence Phase 1 of Analog Switch-Off in Metro Manila by the end of 2024.

TTFN.