Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Solicitor-General files petition to cancel Alice Guo's birth certificate
- Duterte faces plunder, graft suits over Davao contracts to Bong Go kin
- Inflation slows down to 3.7% in June 2024 after rising for months
- UK's Labour sweeps to power as leader Starmer vows to bring change
- FELIP releases first solo album '7sins'
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/july-5-2024/
- Solicitor-General files petition to cancel Alice Guo's birth certificate
- Duterte faces plunder, graft suits over Davao contracts to Bong Go kin
- Inflation slows down to 3.7% in June 2024 after rising for months
- UK's Labour sweeps to power as leader Starmer vows to bring change
- FELIP releases first solo album '7sins'
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/july-5-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:12The Philippines' Solicitor General files a petition to cancel Bamban Mayor Alice Guo's
00:17birth certificate.
00:19Former President Rodrigo Duterte faces a plunder and graft complaint for construction contracts
00:24allegedly cornered by Bong Go's family.
00:28Construction slows down to 3.7% in June 2024 after rising for four straight months.
00:34Keir Starmer is the new UK Prime Minister in a landslide victory by the Labour Party.
00:41And Philippe, also known as SB19's Ken, releases his first solo album, Seven Sins.
00:49Solicitor General Menardo Guevara, the government's primary legal counsel, files a petition to
00:54cancel Bamban Mayor Alice Guo's certificate of live birth with a tarlac court on Friday,
00:59July 5.
01:00Guevara says the mayor was not eligible for late registration.
01:05She did not submit the required supporting documents.
01:07It was her alleged father who belatedly registered her birth certificate, even if she was already
01:1219 years old at the time.
01:14Clearing inconsistencies between her birth certificate and other public records and the
01:19local civil register's violation of existing PSA-NSO rules when it granted her late registration.
01:26The Bamban Mayor is linked to an illegal pogo raided in her town.
01:30A Cuo Waranto case is set to be filed against Guo, which may strip her of her Filipino citizenship.
01:39Former President Rodrigo Duterte faces his second criminal suit post-presidency.
01:44Former Senator Sonny Trillanes files criminal complaints of graft and plunder against Duterte
01:49and Senator Bongo Friday, July 5 before the Justice Department.
01:54The case involves Davao contracts awarded to construction firms owned allegedly by the
01:58father and sibling of Guo, Duterte's right-hand man and former special assistant.
02:04The complaints are based on a 2018 report by the Philippine Center for Investigative
02:08Journalism.
02:09Trillanes claims, CLTG builders and Alfrego builders in supply were awarded government
02:15projects from 2007 to 2018, valued at a staggering amount of at least 6.6 billion pesos.
02:23PCIJ also reports CLTG is among the companies in the Davao region with the most number of
02:29delayed projects.
02:31The name CLTG stands out because it is also Guo's initials, Christopher Lawrence Tesoro
02:36Guo.
02:39After four straight months of rising inflation, the rate of increase in the prices of goods
02:44and services finally eases to 3.7% in June.
02:48The latest figure is lower than the 3.9% recorded in May 2024 and the 5.4% in June 2023.
02:57The year-to-date average inflation is 3.5%, keeping it within the government's goal
03:02of 2% to 4%.
03:04The Ilocos region posts the lowest inflation outside NCR at 2.8%.
03:10The uptick in food prices also remains a concern.
03:13Food inflation rises from 6.1% in May to 6.5% in June, primarily due to higher prices
03:20of vegetables and meat.
03:22The National Economic and Development Authority says the onset of the rainy season affected
03:27supply and pushed the inflation rate of vegetables to 7.2% in June from 2.7% in May.
03:37Keir Starmer vows to bring change to Britain as its next prime minister after his Labour
03:42Party surges to a landslide victory in a parliamentary election on Friday, July 5.
03:48The win ends 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government.
03:53The centre-left Labour was set to win a massive majority in the 650-seat Parliament as voters
03:59punished Rishi Sunak's Conservatives for a cost-of-living crisis, failing public services
04:04and a series of scandals.
04:06Starmer says in a victory speech,
04:08Change begins now.
04:10About 250 Conservative lawmakers were ousted in the crushing defeat, including a record
04:16number of senior ministers and former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
04:20A Conservative tells Reuters,
04:30Philippe, also known as SB19's Ken, releases his first solo album, 7 Sins, Friday, July 5.
04:39Philippe says the nine-track album is a
04:47The songs represent the seven sins in the Bible, ending with the song Ache, which talks
04:52about redemption and acknowledgement.
04:59The singer-songwriter calls it a
05:02album that shows his different sides and stories.
05:05He says it took seven months to write, record and mix the tracks for the album, working
05:10with Luke April of Player 2 and producer Isagany Palabiat.
05:15The album also features collaborations with Belgian-Filipino Saira Gwenth for Lust and
05:20hip-hop group Player 2 for Gluttony.
05:23Philippe is set to hold his first solo concert on July 27, 2024.
05:30And that's today's Wrap.
05:31I'm Giselle Barrientos, thank you for watching.
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