Let's Do The News! (June 2, 2022)

            

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Philippine President-elect Bongbong Marcos will take his oath of office as the 17th Philippine President at the National Museum of the Philippines at the end of June.

- A gunman killed four in a hospital in Oklahoma.

- The World Health Organization warns that pathogens jumping to humans from animals is becoming more frequent.

- The WHO warns that the monkeypox has likely spread undetected "for some time".

- 11 died and 22 missing after Hurricane Agatha hits Mexico.

- The Buffalo supermarket shooter has been charged with domestic terrorism.

- Ford teases a Mustang Black Package and wants the community to give it a name for this special variant.

- Cadillac teases their GTP Hypercar competitor before its June 9 reveal.

- Buick unveiled its new logo with the showcase of its Wildcat EV and Electra-X concepts.

- The all-new Mercedes-Benz GLC was unveiled.

2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class

- Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg resigns.

- Nintendo to launch Pokemon Scarlet and Violet games this November 18 for the Nintendo Switch.

- Chicago Bears running back Marion Barber III dies at age 38.

- The US jury ruled that Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp in a wide watched six-week trial that featured explicit and graphic evidence and testimony detailing the former Hollywood couple's soured relationship.

- Bill Cosby faces a new trial as he got sued by a woman alleging sexual assault.

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UKRAINE CONFLICT: 6/2/2022

            

The latest in the ongoing Ukraine conflict:

• More seek gun training in Taiwan as Ukraine war drives home China threat
• Zelensky: Ukraine losing up to 100 soldiers a day

COVID-19 SITUATION: 6/2/2022

                                                                      

The latest in the ongoing COVID-19 situation:

• Japan study shows women more likely to get skin rash from Moderna shot
• N. Korea Covid outbreak likely 'getting worse' says WHO

THREATS FROM NORTH KOREA: Voters Head to Polls as Local Elections, Parliamentary By-Elections Kick off

 

Voters have begun casting their ballots in polling stations nationwide on Wednesday in an exercise of their democratic rights to elect officials in local elections and parliamentary by-elections underway.

From 6 a.m., 14-thousand-465 polling booths were opened for the electorate to choose officials in more than four-thousand posts at various government levels.

The local elections will fill up 824 posts in large cities and provinces, including governors, mayors, education chiefs and council members. In addition, 226 officials to head smaller cities, counties and districts will be selected. Some 29-hundred municipal level seats will also be filled. 

By-elections for seven empty seats at the National Assembly are also being concurrently held.  

Some 44-point-three million people are eligible to vote in this round of local elections, up by one-point-39 million from the last local elections in 2018. The figure is also some 105-thousand more than the electorate in the March presidential election. 

A two-day early voting period on Friday and Saturday had already recorded a turnout of 20-point-62 percent, a fresh high, raising expectations the final voter turnout could also be high.  

Voters who tested positive for COVID-19 will be given a voting window after the general public from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Vote counting is expected to commence at 8 p.m. with clear winners likely to surface by midnight. 

Amid a mixture of calls to support the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and rivaling calls for the main opposition Democratic Party(DP) to keep the new government in check, the ruling People Power Party(PPP) projects it will claim nine to ten out of the 17 gubernatorial and mayoral posts up for grabs. The DP, on its part, targets to win seven to eight of them.

Source: KBS World

UKRAINE CONFLICT: 6/1/2022

           

The latest in the ongoing Ukraine conflict:

• Ukraine jails two Russian soldiers for 11 and half years for shelling civilians
• Russian military officer dined for stealing jet fuel to heat his house
• Germany's Uniper, RWE have paid for Russian gas under new scheme
• Oil prices surge, gas hits new high after E.U. cracks down on Russia

COVID-19 SITUATION: 6/1/2022

                                                                     

The latest in the ongoing COVID-19 situation:

• 139 new COVID-19 cases logged in Central Luzon in 1 week
• No more swab tests needed for fully vaccinated tourists with booster shots

Let's Do The News! (June 1, 2022)

           

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The Philippines has protested China's fishing ban extending to the Philippine waters.

- The BFAR warns that seven coastal waters in the Philippines have tested positive for red tide.

- BTS meets US President Joe Biden in the White House.

- New Zealand PM Jacinta Ardern and US President Joe Biden shared concern about China's Pacific ambitions.

- Mexico bans the sale of e-cigarettes.

- The US Supreme Court blocked Texas law restraining social media companies.

- Peugeot teases a new car called the 408, coming soon.

- Sergio Perez extends his contract with Red Bull until 2024.

- The Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar has finally been revealed.

2023 Mercedes-AMG ONE

- Ford teases a new Mustang coming tomorrow.

- The all-new Lexus RX has been unveiled.

- The all-new BMW X1 was unveiled along with the first-ever iX1.

2023 BMW X1

- The Depp vs. Heard defamation cases reached no verdict as the jury ends the day's deliberations.

- Jason Marvin Hernandez confirms the split with Moira Dela Torre and confesses being unfaithful.

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