Daily News Highlights – November 29, 2015 Edition

The fate of the world may just be decided at a conference in Paris that starts next week, November 30. This United Nations climate change conference, known as the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), hopes to come up with the world’s action plan to combat global warming.

But the road to this Paris summit began 3 decades ago at the world’s first major climate change conference in 1979. Take a look at this Rappler infographic and retrace the history of climate summits.

Follow Rappler’s full coverage of COP21, and follow the team in Paris via our live blog.

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he is ready to accept any Commission on Elections (Comelec) decision on the petition essentially seeking to disqualify him from the presidential race.

Duterte made the statement on Friday, November 27, when asked about the petition filed by broadcaster Ruben Castor before the Comelec to declare as null and void the certificate of candidacy (COC) of Martin Diño, who was initially PDP-Laban’s presidential candidate.

Read more on Rappler.

Moscow on Saturday, November 28, slapped economic sanctions on Turkey in the latest tit-for-tat move over the downing of a Russian warplane, as Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was “saddened” by the jet incident.

The incident is thought to be the first downing of a Russian plane by a NATO member in more than half a century. “I’m really saddened,” Erdogan said. “We wish it had never happened, but it happened. I hope something like this doesn’t happen again.

Agence France-Presse filed this report from Moscow.

A leading maritime law expert explained that more countries sent observers to the second round of hearings at The Hague because the tribunal’s ruling will have implications beyond the Philippines, especially on other claimant countries.

Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, said a ruling striking down China’s 9-dash line will affect how other claimants deal with Beijing.

Read more on Rappler.

Malacañang on Saturday, November 28, said President Benigno Aquino III will witness the signing of a deal in Italy that will allow direct flights between Manila and Rome when he goes on an official visit to Italy next week. 

Aquino’s trip to Rome, Italy, includes the “expansion of the Air Services Agreement that will open direct commercial flights between Manila and Rome,” the Palace said.

Read more on Rappler.

The Philippines got the first slice of Japan’s $100-billion Asian infrastructure aid, after representatives from the two countries on Friday, November 27, formally signed a $1.99-billion loan agreement for a 36.7-kilometer railway connecting Tutuban, Manila, and Malolos, Bulacan.

This marks the largest loan package of the Japanese government to a development partner. The North-South Railway (Malolos-Tutuban) deal supports the expansion of a mass transportation network, which is recognized as one of the priorities in the 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan (PDP).

Read the details of the deal on Rappler Business.

Britain’s Tyson Fury was crowned the new world heavyweight champion on Saturday, November 28 (Sunday, November 29 in Manila) after a unanimous points win over Wladimir Klitschko, who suffered his first defeat in 11 years.

The 27-year-old Fury was awarded the fight in Duesseldorf 115-112, 115-112 and 116-111 by the judges to take Klitschko’s WBA, IBF and WBO belts as the Ukrainian suffered his first defeat since 2004.

Agence France-Presse reports from Berlin.

Kevin Ferrer refused to play his final collegiate game as he sparked University of Santo Tomas past Far Eastern University, 62-56, and extended the UAAP Season 78 men’s basketball Finals to a winner-take-all Game 3 on Saturday, November 28 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

UST bounced back from a Game 1 loss to even the series and give itself a shot at potentially winning its 19th UAAP men’s basketball title and its first since 2006.

Read the blow-by-blow on Rappler Sports.

Miss Universe Philippines 2015 Pia Wurtzbach became emotional as she recalled the challenges and struggles she had to overcome to finally represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant, to be held in Las Vegas on December 20 (December 21, Manila time).

“Lord knows how long it took me to get here. Finally, I have my own send-off,” a teary-eyed Pia told the press.

Read more on Rappler.

From the usual “happily-ever-after” formula Philippine movies usually use, Cathy Garcia-Molina’s One More Chance (2007) “managed to expand the emotional spectrum” of romance movies, argues movie critic Oggs Cruz. “The movies today are influenced by all sorts of inspirations, though One More Chance certainly made its impact on the local industry,” he writes. 

In this article, Cruz cites 5 post-One More Chance films that showed there’s more to love than ecstasy. See the list on Rappler.