TOP STORIES – Wednesday, 11 June 2025

TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online monitoring)

As of 11 June 2025, Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.

1. DUTERTE IMPEACHMENT CASE:

-Senate remands VP Duterte impeachment case to House; OVP receives impeachment court summons

-Experts, lawmakers: Remanding VP Sara impeachment articles to House unconstitutional

-Expert insists House can reject remanded impeachment complaint; Escudero says otherwise

-Church leaders urge Congress to rise above politics

-Makabayan blasts Senate for return-to-sender move on VP Sara impeachment

-Torreon, others file supplemental petition vs. VP Sara's impeachment

[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, BusinessWorld, Daily Guardian, Daily Tribune, DZBB, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler, SunStar, The Freeman]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2069540/sara-dutertes-office-receives-impeachment-court-summons

2. Marcos declares state of calamity in Eastern Visayas over San Juanico bridge fix

[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Sunstar]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/949003/marcos-declares-state-of-calamity-in-eastern-visayas-over-san-juanico-bridge-fix/story/

3. Marcos orders 6 months to fix Siquijor power crisis

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, Philstar]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2069598/siquijors-power-crisis-to-have-long-term-solution-in-6-months-marcos

4. House panel seeks graft, plunder raps vs. VP Sara, officials

[ABS-CBN News, Daily Guardian, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philstar, Rappler]

https://tribune.net.ph/2025/06/10/house-panel-seeks-graft-plunder-raps-vs-vp-sara-officials

5. Marcos congratulates newly elected South Korean president

[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, NewsWatchPlus]

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/279941/marcos-congratulates-newly-elected-south-korean-president

6. ICC junks Duterte request to disqualify 2 judges from deciding jurisdiction issue

[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, Daily Guardian, Daily Tribune, DZBB, GMA News, Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/949023/icc-junks-duterte-request-to-disqualify-2-judges-from-deciding-jurisdiction-issue/story/

7. Senate asks House to adopt P100 minimum wage hike bill; House asks Senate to hold bicam hearings on mininum wage hike bills

[Daily Tribune, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar]

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/06/11/2449813/senate-asks-house-adopt-p100-minimum-wage-hike-bill-house-urges-bicam

8. House adopts Quadcom report accusing Duterte, Bato and Bong Go of state-sanctioned killings, protecting drug traffickers, enabling POGO crimes

[BusinessMirror, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard]

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/06/11/house-adopts-quadcom-report-accusing-duterte-bato-and-bong-go-of-state-sanctioned-killings-protecting-drug-traffickers-enabling-pogo-crimes
9. Court orders Arnie Teves transfer to Camp Bagong Diwa

[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, DZBB, GMA News, Manila Standard, News5PH]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/949053/court-orders-arnie-teves-transfer-to-camp-bagong-diwa/story/

10. Meralco power rates down in June

[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, Daily Tribune, DZBB, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, News5PH, Philstar]

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/6/11/meralco-power-rates-down-in-june-1119

11. Cloud clusters inside PAR develops into LPA

[ABS-CBN News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, Rappler]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2069611/pagasa-cloud-clusters-inside-par-develops-into-lpa

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