Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- The Filipino American vote could swing election results in Nevada – NYT report
- US blames Russia over video falsely alleging fraudulent voting in state of Georgia
- Comelec to proceed with COC filings as Escudero seeks BARMM election delay
- Israel officially informs UN of end to relations with Palestinian relief agency
- Spain deploys 7,500 troops to flood zone where anger rises at slow help
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-4-2024/
- The Filipino American vote could swing election results in Nevada – NYT report
- US blames Russia over video falsely alleging fraudulent voting in state of Georgia
- Comelec to proceed with COC filings as Escudero seeks BARMM election delay
- Israel officially informs UN of end to relations with Palestinian relief agency
- Spain deploys 7,500 troops to flood zone where anger rises at slow help
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-4-2024/
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00:00A New York Times report says the Filipino-American vote in swing state Nevada may be the deciding
00:19factor in the state.
00:20U.S. intelligence blames Russia for a disinformation video showing a Haitian immigrant allegedly
00:25voting multiple times in Georgia.
00:27Pamela continues to accept certificates of candidacy for the BARM election, despite moves
00:32to postpone the parliamentary elections.
00:35Israel terminates its agreement with the United Nations' Palestinian Relief Agency.
00:39And angry crowds throw mud at the Spanish king and queen in the aftermath of flash floods
00:43that killed at least 217 people.
00:48A New York Times report says overlooked Filipino-American voters in swing state Nevada may be the deciding
00:53factor in the state.
00:55Nevada is one of the seven battleground states and home to a fast-growing Filipino community.
01:00Both campaigns of Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump have tried to reach
01:04the Pinoy vote.
01:05Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and Harris' sister Maya have campaigned to Filipino-American
01:11voters in Nevada.
01:12Harris' campaign ads now also have Filipino-Americans as talking heads.
01:16Trump's campaign for its part sent U.S. Senatorial candidate Sam Brown to a Filipino community
01:21event.
01:22At the time, Harris appeared on comedy show Saturday Night Live.
01:25Harris portraying herself appeared as the mirror opposite of actress Maya Rudolph.
01:29The two traded variations on Harris' first name, saying Americans want to end the dramala
01:34in politics with a cool new stepmamala.
01:37The two said in unison, keep Kamala and carry onala.
01:43United States intelligence agencies blame Russia for creating and spreading a video
01:46of a Haitian immigrant allegedly voting multiple times in the battleground state of Georgia.
01:52Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls the video targeted disinformation and
01:57says it was likely produced by Russian troll farms.
02:00Raffensperger appeals directly to social media companies, urging them to remove the video
02:04from their platforms.
02:06Analyses by misinformation trackers NewsGuard and Common Cause both identified a post by
02:11an anonymous account on X as the likely first version of the video to appear online.
02:16Georgia is one of the seven battleground states expected to determine the winner on Tuesday's
02:21election between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President
02:25Kamala Harris.
02:29Elections Chairman George Garcia says the Commission on Elections will continue accepting
02:33certificates of candidacy for the Bangsamoro until November 9 for the 2025 parliamentary
02:38elections of the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao or Barm.
02:42This despite Senate President Francis Escudero's announcement that he would file a bill to
02:46postpone the parliamentary elections.
02:48Garcia, who arrived in Cotabato for the start of the filing period, says only a legislative
02:53act could alter the COMELEC schedule.
02:55Escudero notes a recent Supreme Court ruling excludes Sulu province from the predominantly
02:59Muslim region.
03:01Sulu was initially allocated seven representatives in the Barm Parliament.
03:05Escudero notes the decision could affect party list and sexual representation in the regional
03:09legislative body.
03:11Barm's interim parliament, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, passed a resolution
03:15on October 22, delaying the region's first regular parliamentary elections from 2025
03:20to 2028.
03:24Israel terminates its agreement with the United Nations that regulates its relations with
03:27the main UN relief organization for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA.
03:32The agreement had been in place since 1967.
03:35UNRWA provides aid and education services to millions of Palestinians in the occupied
03:39West Bank and Gaza.
03:41Last month, the Israeli parliament banned UNRWA from operating in Israel and stopped
03:45Israeli authorities from cooperating with it.
03:48This doesn't directly outlaw UNRWA operations in occupied Palestine, considered by international
03:53law to be outside Israel but under its occupation.
03:57Israel has long been critical of UNRWA, accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
04:01Meantime, at least 31 people are killed during Israel's Gaza assault on Sunday, November
04:063.
04:07Yesterday, at least 13 Palestinians were killed in attacks on houses in Gaza's largest historic
04:12refugee camps.
04:14Angry crowds throw mud and chant murderers at the Spanish king and queen as they visited
04:19flood-hit Valencia in Spain, which suffered the worst of the catastrophic flooding.
04:23The torrential rains and flash flooding killed 217 people, most of them in the Valencia region
04:29and more than 60 in the Paiporta suburb.
04:31Spain faces rising discontent over the sluggish response to the catastrophe.
04:35Valencia region president says 69 municipalities across the entire region were either totally
04:40or partially affected by the flooding.
04:42The calamity is deemed as Europe's worst weather disaster in half a century.
04:46The number of dead is now past the 209 killed during the heavy floods in Romania in 1970.
04:52Floods in Portugal in 1967 killed nearly 500 people.
04:56Officials say the death toll has stabilized because all the victims on the surface had
04:59been identified.
05:02And that's today's wrap.
05:03I'm Cara Oliver.
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