Monday, August 16, 2021

Let's Do The News! (August 16, 2021)

           

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The low-pressure area off Baguio City has been dissipated.

- Over 100 Camarines farmers will soon become landowners, according to the Department of Agrarian Reform.

- A certain poll official issues warning to those planning to do vote-buying via an e-payment system.

- At least 16 suspected communist rebels are killed in an intense clash between the Philippine Army and the New People's Army in Eastern Samar.

- Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted.

- Former US President Donald Trump calls for President Joe Biden to step down following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

- Death toll from the recent Haitian earthquake reaches 1,200.

- The UN chief calls for "restraint" in Afghanistan.

- Chinese president Xi Jinping writes an article for a certain magazine, saying the Communist Party of China is a pillar people can lean on.

- Malaysian prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin quits after 17 months in office.

- A fuel tank explosion in Lebanon killed 28 people and hurt 80.

- Death toll from the Turkish floods reaches 62.

TTFN.

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