Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Let's Do The News! (July 8, 2025)

              

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

- The "ground zero" of the missing sabungeros was revealed by the PH Department of Justice.

- Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro met with the Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the Philippines' preparations for hosting regional meetings and summits in 2026.

- The MalacaƱang confirmed that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, Huang Xilian, in connection with China's imposition of sanctions against Senator Francis Tolentino. Tolentino is currently banned from mainland China, as well as Macau, and Hong Kong, due to his strong stance on the West Philippine Sea issue.

PHIVOLCS has reported 4 volcanic earthquakes around the Kanlaon Volcano and 11 volcanic earthquakes around Mt. Bulusan within the last 24 hours.

- Archaeologists are examining 2,000-year-old shoes discovered at a Roman site in northern England, largely due to their unusual size. The shoes, measuring over 30 cm, were found in recent months in a defensive ditch that the Romans often used as a rubbish dump at the Vindolanda Charity Trust and the Magna Roman Fort in Northumberland. The trust was established in 1970 to excavate, preserve, and share Roman artifacts from Vindolanda and Carvoran, both of which are part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site in Northern England.

- Archaeologists have unveiled to the public a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that may have served as a trading center, linking the cultures of the Pacific coast with those of the Andes and the Amazon, and flourished at the same time as ancient civilizations in the Middle East and Asia. Drone footage released by researchers on Thursday, July 3, shows that the city center is marked by a circular structure on a hillside terrace, with the remains of stone and mud buildings built about 600 meters above sea level.

- Texas braces for more rainfall as the death toll reaches 82, with dozens missing.

- The Kia EV5 is set to go on sale in South Korea in the second half of 2025.

2026 Kia EV5
2026 Kia EV5

- The third season of the Netflix series Alice in Borderland will stream this September 25th, 2025.

- SEVENTEEN members Hoshi and Woozi announced their military enlistment dates.

- Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. defends his son, Chavez Jr., who was arrested by US ICE agents. The 39-year-old Chavez Jr. also has an active warrant for his arrest in Mexico for alleged arms and drug trafficking and suggested ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.

TTFN.

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