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As of June 15, 8pm: BPI’s app and online banking services remain unavailable, but clients can use their credit and debit cards for in-person and online transactions. Account access is also available via ATMs and CAMs. BPI’s first outage advisory was on June 14, 3pm. @bworldph

Iran’s soccer team arrived in the United States for the first time at this World Cup on Sunday, landing at Los Angeles International Airport and holding a press conference on the same day that a peace deal between the two nations was announced. zurl.co/Akauy

Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet at a French lakeside resort on Monday shortly after the US and Iran said they had reached a preliminary deal to end their war. zurl.co/4viKw

Amid the onset of El Niño, there is a likelihood that it may intensify into a “very strong El Niño” by the end of the year, causing impacts such as enhancing the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclone, while bringing dry conditions to parts of the country, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Monday. zurl.co/5LvEA

Revisiting Longchamp’s Le Pliage One, Le Pliage Xtra, Sarabia 360 opens in Alabang, and more in our Style stories. zurl.co/yCTmm

SENIOR ANTHROPIC technical staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try resolving a dispute that has taken the company’s most advanced AI models offline, Axios reported on Sunday, citing a source close to the company. zurl.co/BueJB

YOU’VE got exactly a week before Father’s Day (June 21) to snag these gifts and make your daddy proud. zurl.co/iG9p1

A planned cocoa bond in Ghana to finance the 2026/2027 buying season is expected to draw investment from banks and pension funds here if the terms are acceptable, three sources told Reuters, despite bitter memories of a debt restructuring exercise four years ago that hammered the same investor class. zurl.co/b9koq

AS A CHILD growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. zurl.co/bkJr9

OPINION | Who’s afraid of Japanese neo-militarism? Nobody By Gearoid Reidy Read: zurl.co/hjquP

At four years old, Max Alexander told his parents he was a dressmaker. By age 10, he was showing a collection at Paris Fashion Week. zurl.co/Sfip2

House Secretary General Cheloy V. Garafil formally filed the House prosecution panel’s pre-trial brief before the Senate impeachment court at exactly 5:20 p.m. | @bworldph 📸: Office of the House Secretary General

BPI is working to restore full access to the BPI app and BPI online. We assure our payroll clients that the system downtime did not impact the crediting of their net take-home pay. We regret the inconvenience and thank our clients for their patience and understanding.|@bworldph

OPINION | Mental health: It takes a community By Teodoro B. Padilla Read: zurl.co/yss8p

Anne Curtis is the face of Emface as announced on June 2 at the Fairmont Makati. zurl.co/UNRGj

OPINION | Playing cat-and-mouse with higher education By Jam Magdaleno and Cesar Ilao III Read: zurl.co/5WNyA

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SARABIA OPTICAL has opened its new concept, Sarabia 360 x Essilor Premier, a partnership with the French manufacturer of lenses and optical equipment. zurl.co/T23EI

OPINION | The sachet By Marvin Tort Read: zurl.co/WJSG7

OPINION | When politics shakes, the nation trembles By Diwa C. Guinigundo Read: zurl.co/di5My