Friday, December 13, 2024

Let's Do The News! (December 13, 2024)

                              

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

- The COMELEC is observing if they will allow online voting for persons deprived of liberty.

- The National Confederation of Labor filed a petition to suspend the printing of official ballots for the 2025 national and local elections.

- House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Representative France Castro and Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel find the P12 billion cut in the PH Department of Education budget for 2025 unacceptable.

- Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has placed all units of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Bureau of Fire Protection (PNP) throughout Negros Island on "high alert" due to the eruption of Kanlaon Volcano.

- Levis Fishlock, the man who tried to set fire to the hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, England was jailed for nine years, the joint-longest sentence so far after UK summer riots.

- US top diplomat Antony Blinken holds talks with President Erdogan on establishing stability in Syria.

- Kyrgyzstan wants to update its national anthem.

- Future BMW M models will feature quad-motor electric drivetrains.

- The first-ever DS Automobiles N°8 was unveiled. This electric coupe crossover is the first to use the French luxury brand's new naming scheme and its new logo. The FWD Long Range has up to 750km of driving range while the AWD Long Range has up to 350PS of power.

2026 DS Automobiles N°8
2026 DS Automobiles N°8

- The Lotus Emira Limited was unveiled. Limited to 12 units, it features liveries inspired by Lotus' Formula 1 heritage. It's powered by a 360HP AMG 2.0L turbo engine.

Lotus Emira Limited

- Astro Bot wins The Game Awards Game of the Year. During the award ceremony, major announcements were made such as CDPR's The Witcher 4, a new Virtua Fighter game, Tekken 8's first special guest character, Borderlands 4, Okami, Onimusha, Turok Origins, and more.

- Gakuen IDOLM@STER app game gets its PC release soon.

- The Detroit Lions revoked the season tickets of a fan who had a pregame verbal altercation with Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur at Ford Field last week.

- The body of former England rugby player Tom Voyce was found, five days after Storm Darragh.

TTFN.

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