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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:  - Ombudsman dismisses Mayor Alice Guo from service - PH protests China’s use of flares on PAF plane over Scarborough Shoal - ‘Quite alarming’: Dela Rosa hits Remulla, Guevarra over recent ICC statements - Britain’s Tom Daley announces retirement after Paris Olympics silver - Jojo Nones, Richard Cruz deny sexual assault allegations   https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-13-2024/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:13Alice Guo, the controversial mayor of Bambantarlac, is dismissed and banned from public office.

00:18The Philippines protests China's firing of flares near a Philippine plane over Scarborough

00:23Shoal.

00:24Senator Bato De La Rosa says he finds the openness of certain government officials to

00:28the ITC probe quite alarming.

00:32Britain's five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daley is retiring.

00:36And GMA Network's Giorgio Nones and Richard Cruz deny sexual abuse allegations made against

00:41them by actor Sandro Mulac.

00:46Controversial Bambantarlac mayor Alice Guo is dismissed and banned from public office.

00:51The Office of the Ombudsman gave the order on Tuesday, August 13, after it found Guo

00:56guilty of grave misconduct.

00:58She is perpetually disqualified from re-entering government service, and all her retirement

01:02benefits from any post she held are forfeited.

01:05Guo became a household name ever since a Senate investigation uncovered her suspected links

01:10to illegal pogos.

01:12Officials questioned her nationality and ties to business partners accused of crimes.

01:17Guo faces a slew of cases, including qualified trafficking and a petition to cancel her birth

01:22certificate.

01:23The Court of Appeals earlier froze her assets, and the Senate ordered her arrest to force

01:27her to participate in its investigation.

01:32The Philippines officially protests China's jets firing flares near a Philippine plane

01:37over Scarborough Shoal.

01:39Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo tells a congressional panel on Tuesday, August 13, the DFAS filed

01:44a note verbal against China to convey its strong condemnation of the incident.

01:49Manalo says the Philippine Air Force plane's actions were lawful because it did not pose

01:53threat to the Chinese planes.

01:56It also did not violate any sovereignty or jurisdiction because it was within its rights

02:00to patrol the area.

02:02In a separate briefing, the Navy Inspector General Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad

02:07tells reporters the Chinese plane's actions were, quote, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive.

02:13The incident happened last Thursday, August 8, above Scarborough Shoal in the waters off

02:18Zambales.

02:21Senator Bato De La Rosa says he finds it quite alarming that certain administration

02:25officials hinted at openness to the ITC's probe into the war on drugs.

02:30In a privileged speech on Monday, August 12, De La Rosa reacted to recent statements by

02:35Justice Secretary Boyeng Remulia and Solicitor General Menardo Guevara.

02:39The pronouncements of those two executive officials are quite alarming.

02:46Are they challenging the policy set by the president?

02:51Guevara earlier said his office wouldn't prevent ITC prosecutors from interviewing people allegedly

02:56involved in the drug war.

02:58In a separate interview, Remulia said it's the International Criminal Police Organization's

03:02job to serve an arrest warrant once it's out.

03:06As former President Rodrigo Duterte's first police chief, De La Rosa stands with him accused

03:10of crimes against humanity over drug war killings.

03:16Britain's five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daly says he's retiring.

03:21The 30-year-old tells British Vogue he feels, quote, "...it's the right time to call it

03:25a day."

03:26Daly ended his final Olympiad in Paris with a silver from the men's synchronized 10-meter

03:31dive with Noah Williams.

03:33It was a fitting comeback for Daly as he took a hiatus after winning gold in the Tokyo Olympics

03:38in 2021.

03:40He says he returned for a final Olympiad because his older son asked him to.

03:44With that, Daly became the first British diver to compete in five Olympics.

03:49His popularity grew after he came out as gay in 2013.

03:53He tells the BBC, quote, "...he's really happy with how everything's gone."

03:56GMA Network independent contractors Giorgio Nones and Richard Cruz deny sexual abuse allegations

04:05made against them by 23-year-old GMA actor Sandro Mula.

04:09In a Senate hearing on Monday, August 12, Senator Gingoy Estrada questioned both Nones

04:14and Cruz's totally unacceptable absences during the first hearing on August 7.

04:19Nones apologized for not showing up during the last hearing, admitting he and Cruz were

04:24both scared to be subjected to a media circus and a premature trial.

04:28He adds they were afraid of the possibility of violating the ongoing investigation by

04:32the National Bureau of Investigation.

04:35Addressing Mula, they say, quote, "...we did not do anything wrong to you and you know

04:39that in your heart.

04:40It's not too late to tell the truth."

04:42Cruz and Nones add they are homosexuals, but they are not abusers and they do not commit

04:47any wrongdoings against others.

04:52And that's today's wrap.

04:53I'm Cara Oliver.

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