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Today’s headlines: Sara Duterte impeachment, Iran-Israel conflict, Ivana Alawi | The wRap | June 25, 2025  Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: - In pleading, House tells Sara impeachment court it didn't violate Constitution - Alfamart mulls pressing charges vs vlogger who went inside store freezer - UN rapporteur calls out delay of justice for detained journalist Cumpio - Fragile ceasefire holding as Trump envoy says peace talks with Iran ‘promising’ - In lie detector test, Ivana Alawi says she’s not a home-wrecker  https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/june-25-2025/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:06In a pleading filed with a Senate impeachment court, the House of Representatives says its

00:16impeachment of Vice President Saru Duterte is constitutional.

00:20A convenience store chain may press charges against a vlogger who went inside its freezer.

00:24UN Special Rapporteur Irene Kahn criticizes the Philippine justice system for the slow

00:30progress in Frenchie Mae Kumpio's case.

00:33The ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump between Iran and Israel appears to be

00:37holding.

00:39And Ivana Alawi denies being a homewrecker in a lie detector test.

00:45The House of Representatives says its impeachment of Vice President Saru Duterte is constitutional.

00:51This in a pleading filed with a Senate sitting as an impeachment court on Wednesday, June

00:5525.

00:56The pleading also maintains the Senate's move to remand has no legal basis.

01:01With this, the House complied with one of the two conditions set by the Senate when it remanded

01:05the impeachment articles to the lower chamber last June 10.

01:08It is yet to comply with the second condition of the impeachment court for the House of the

01:1220th Congress to express its desire to continue with the impeachment trial.

01:16This is an act the House will not be able to do until July 28, or when the 20th Congress

01:22convenes.

01:23Meantime, Senate President Chis Escudero says Wednesday, June 25, the date for the actual

01:28impeachment trial of Vice President Saru Duterte will be set by the 20th Congress.

01:36Alphamart Philippines says it may file charges over the misuse of its store equipment.

01:40This after a video went viral showing a woman lying inside one of its freezers.

01:46The Sea-owned convenience store made a statement on Friday, June 20.

01:50Alphamart says, quote,

01:52Please understand we are compelled to pursue legal action against those responsible for

01:56the improper use of our store equipment.

01:59The store also says the ice products in the video were removed and the freezer was cleaned

02:03and sanitized to keep safety and hygiene standards.

02:05The woman in the video, identified as Vivian Bravo-Vinuya, already deleted the post from

02:11her accounts.

02:12But following Alphamart's official statement, she shared another video of herself locked in

02:17a dog's cage and joked she has been arrested.

02:22United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion, Irene Khan, criticizes

02:27the justice system in the Philippines for the slow progress in the case of Tacloban-based

02:31journalist Frenchie Mae Kumpio.

02:33Kumpio has been detained for over five years since she was arrested in February 2020, along

02:39with activists Mariel Domechil and Alexandra Abinguna.

02:43They were first charged with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and later in 2021

02:47with financing terrorism.

02:49It's a travesty of justice because the individual, even if she is found innocent, will have spent

02:58almost as much as she would have in prison had she been found guilty.

03:04The lack of speed of the proceedings means that people are being punished without being

03:12found guilty.

03:13Khan also questions why the authorities still haven't decided on the detainee's application

03:18for bail.

03:20The Special Rapporteur visited the detainee at the Tacloban City Jail in January 2024, becoming

03:25the first international visitor allowed to meet Kumpio.

03:28The ceasefire brokered by United States President Donald Trump between Iran and Israel appears

03:35to be holding on Wednesday, June 25.

03:38Each side claimed victory on Tuesday after the U.S. joined the fray with airstrikes to

03:43take out Iran's uranium enrichment facilities.

03:46Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday, talks between the United States

03:50and Iran were, quote, promising, and Washington was hopeful for a long-term peace deal after

03:5512 days of war.

03:57Trump said over the weekend, U.S. stealth bombers obliterated Iran's program to develop nuclear

04:02weapons.

04:04But sources say Iran's enriched uranium stocks were not eliminated, and the country's

04:08nuclear program may have been set back by only a month or two.

04:12Meantime, thousands of travelers queued for hours at Doha and Dubai, two of the world's

04:16busiest airports, on Tuesday, June 24.

04:19Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait shut their airspace late Monday after Iran's strike on a U.S.

04:24military base in Qatar's capital, Doha.

04:28Airports across Dubai and the United Arab Emirates also briefly halted operations.

04:33Flight Radar 24 data show about 145 flights were canceled, and over 450 were delayed at

04:39Dubai International, the busiest airport in the world.

04:45Actress and social media personality Ivana Alawi took a lie detector test in a recent YouTube

04:50vlog amid rumors of an affair with Bacolod City Mayor Albi Benitez.

04:55In her vlog, Ivana answers several controversial questions, including one where her sister Mona

04:59asked,

05:00In February 2024, Ivana was rumored to be Benitez's mistress after a viral post showed

05:15him together at a Japan airport.

05:18Over a year later, Benitez's wife, Nikki Lopez Benitez, filed a complaint accusing him of

05:23marital infidelity.

05:25Lopez Benitez also accused the mayor of violating the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children

05:29Act, citing a series of emotional, psychological, and economic abuses.

05:35Both the actress-influencer and the mayor denied the allegations, with Benitez's team claiming

05:40the rumor was part of a smear campaign.

05:45And that's today's wrap.

05:46I'm Cara Oliver.

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