Let's Do The News! (December 22, 2023)

                                      

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

- Malabon police seized almost 200K pesos worth of drugs from drug suspects.

- The PH Department of Energy is unsure that the country will not face blackouts amid the El niño phenomenon, even though the DOE said the Philippines has an adequate energy supply. According to Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan, there are most cases of power interruption including regular maintenance and a kite stuck on a power wire.

- The United Nations warns that Gaza is facing famine as the entire population is suffering acute shortages.

- Fourteen people were killed in a mass shooting at a university in the Czech capital, Prague. The gunman, a student, is also dead.

- The Eurotunnel strike ends and London's Euston services have been restarted but thousands face Christmas getaway disruption. Christmas getaway journeys are ruined for thousands after a strike in France closes the Channel Tunnel and Storm Pia winds cause chaos elsewhere

- The UK government rows back on plans to raise the earnings threshold to 38,700 pounds for people who want to come to the country on family visas.

- 4.5 million Honda and Acura models are being recalled worldwide to fix a fuel pump defect. 2.5 million are in the U.S., with more than 20 models affected.

- Subaru will display the WRX S4 STi Sport # prototype at next month's Tokyo Auto Salon.

- TOEI announced the 2024 Super Sentai installment airing on TV Asahi this March 3rd. The 2024 Super Sentai installment is titled Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger.

- PLEDIS reveals TWS boy group. The new boy group will have six members and they will debut this January.

- Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Syracuse star wide receiver Mike Williams died as the result of a rare bacterial sepsis after suffering injuries in a work-related construction accident last August, according to reports.

- Yoshinobu Yamamoto is now part of the Los Angeles Dodgers via a 12-year, $325 million contract deal, according to reports.

- Oregon State and Washington State have come to an agreement in principle with the 10 departing Pac-12 universities that will end ongoing litigation related to control of the conference. The agreement comes in the wake of the Washington state Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a lower court's decision that granted control of the Pac-12 board of directors to OSU and WSU.

- Disney lost the "Beauty and the Beast" profits trial over the stolen VFX tech. The $600K award signals that jurors didn't attribute much of the film's success to the use of Rearden's MOVA Contour.

TTFN.