- A task force on cybersecurity will meet on Monday to investigate the hacking of emails of opposition senators' staff, according to a Department of Information and Communications Technology official. This comes after the senators, on Thursday, said that several emails accounts of their staff were hacked, including “official email addresses for releasing media statements of Sen. Pangilinan and the Liberal Party.”
- After being designated the sole agency in charge of the ongoing war on drugs, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency vowed that the anti-narcotics campaign would be less bloody. Meanwhile, Amnesty International said that President Duterte's decision to shift the responsibility to PDEA for his ongoing drug war was just a "PR" move and Human Rights Watch said that Duterte's "finally feeling the heat".
- Senate President Koko Pimentel defended President Duterte's profanity-laced attack on EU ambassadors, saying it was a defense of "Filipino values" and sovereignty. However, despite Duterte's ultimatum on the ambassador, a Malacanang Palace official says there is no directive to kick out diplomats of the European Union from the Philippines.
- Democrats cried foul over EPA's decision to reverse clean water safeguards, allowing a mining company to set up a mine in the salmon-rich Bristol Bay in Alaska. Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell said in her statement that the EPA's plan to reverse clean water safeguards is "egregious and inconsistent with science and frankly, inconsistent with basic logic." The public has until October 17 to comment on the EPA's proposed withdrawal of a move under the Obama administration to protect the Bristol Bay watershed from potential mining activities.
- Tobu Zoo's Humboldt penguin, Grape-kun, has passed away Thursday at the elder age of 21, a late age for Humboldt penguins that typically live approximately 25 years. This elder penguin won the hearts of Kemono Friends fans many and placed a cardboard cutout of the show's character Hululu in his environment.
- The Netherlands is joining the list of EU nations to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles beginning in the next two decades.
- Production of the Volkswagen Scirocco hatchback has ended after nine years.
- Nissan's Infiniti luxury brand will unveil the next-generation QX80 full-size SUV at next month's Dubai Motor Show.
- Toyota's Lexus brand announced that the next-generation ES will be sold in Japan in the autumn of next year as the replacement for the lackluster HS250h.
- Rotom Dex says "NEW POKEMON ULTRA SUN & MOON INFO ON THE RADAR!" Today's info puts the spotlight on Legendary Pokemons' brand new Z-moves such as Searing Sunraze Smash for Solgaleo/Dusk Mane Necrozma and Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom for Lunala/Dawn Wings Necrozma. Also, Rotom Dex says he's got upgraded with new features such as Roto Loto where you can get special power-ups such as added prize money, Exp. points, added capture rate, and so much more. Later, Rotom Dex can grant you the new "Rotom's Z-Power" feature which allows you to use your Pokemon's Z-move again!
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