Friday, April 19, 2024

Let's Do The News! (April 19 2024)

                          

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

- The NGCP placed the Luzon grid on red and yellow alert today.

- The Bureau of Immigration says that foreigners with student visas will undergo intelligence investigation by the PH government. It also says that Filipino students in the country may still be subjected to the probe.

- US officials confirmed that an Israeli missile hit Iran. Iran media says three explosions were heard near an airbase in Isfahan. The attack was a reprisal from last weekend's drone and missile attack launched by Iran to Israel.

- The inquest jury rules that the 48 people who were killed in the 1981 Dublin nightclub fire were unlawfully killed.

- Peter Murrell, the husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, was re-arrested in connection with the investigation into SNP finances. Murrell was charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from the SNP.

- Two jurors were excused in Donald Trump's first criminal trial, days after being sworn in.

- Kenya's top military official General Francis Ogolla was among those who were killed in a defence force helicopter crash, according to President William Ruto.

- Reports revealed the true scale of the number of medical trials using infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s. They reveal a secret world of unsafe clinical testing involving children in the UK, as doctors placed research goals ahead of patients' needs. They continued for more than 15 years, involved hundreds of people, and infected most with hepatitis C and HIV.

- Indians cast their votes in the first phase of its seven-stage election.

- Skoda will reveal its Vision Gran Turismo entry next week.

- The second-generation Citroen C3 Aircross was revealed. It will be offered as a seven-seater for the first time.

2025 Citroen C3 Aircross

- BMW teases the next-generation X3 crossover.

- The upcoming Yuri!!! on Ice: Ice Adolescence film was canceled. The series' production committee and MAPPA cite "various circumstances" over the film's cancelation.

- The stop-motion animated series Ania Kingdom, based on Takara Tomy's Ania line of toy animals, returns for its second season this summer.

- Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry will voice Optimus Prime and Megatron in the animated prequel movie Transformers ONE, coming to cinemas this September 20, 2024.

- Singer Parc Jae Jung will be enlisting in the military next month.

- Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers will not be disciplined by the NFL after being involved in a domestic violence investigation earlier this year, according to the league's statement.

TTFN.

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