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On the international front, the death toll from floods and landslides in Indonesia rose to 26, with 19 others still missing. The United Nations also tackled LGBT rights in a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly – its first leaders’ meeting on the matter. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, meanwhile, have another ambitious goal – and they’re pouring funds into it.
In the Philippines, Cotabato City Mayor Japal Guiani Jr died early Thursday, September 22. The Senate is also conducting separate hearings on the traffic crisis and extrajudicial killings.
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At least 26 people are now confirmed dead in devastating floods and landslides in Indonesia. Hopes are fading for 19 others still missing.
The United Nations (UN) held its first high-level meeting on the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it’s an “outrage” that hundreds are killed in anti-gay violence every year and millions “live their lives in the shadow of discrimination and disapproval.”
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged $3 billion to help cure all disease, or at least make catastrophic illnesses preventable within their daughter’s lifetime. Zuckerberg said they “spent the last few years speaking with experts who think it is possible.”
Cotabato City Mayor Japal Guiani Jr died early Thursday, September 22, after he was rushed to a hospital in Davao City. He was 56.
Police Director Joel Pagdilao and retired Deputy Director General Marcelo Garbo Jr were mentioned in two separate testimonies at the House inquiry on the alleged proliferation of drugs at the New Bilibid Prison. The two were not directly linked to drugs but their names came up in the testimonies of a convict and a high-ranking cop.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is reviewing auditors’ recommendation to suspend 10 more mines. So far, the DENR has already suspended 10 others.
The Senate is conducting another hearing on emergency powers for the traffic crisis in Metro Manila and other parts of the country. Watch the hearing on Rappler.
The 4th hearing on extrajudicial killings is also happening Thursday.
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