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Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Water charges to be refunded, and gangland hit foiled in Dublin – it’s the Fix.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Water charges refund Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy announcing that refunds of water charges will be paid out before the end of the year at Government Buildings today Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

WORLD

Indonesia Myanmar Protest A Muslim woman holds a poster of Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Medan, Indonesia, today Binsar Bakkara / PA Images Binsar Bakkara / PA Images / PA Images

#IRMA: People have been urged to take shelter as the most powerful Atlantic storm in history gets set to make landfall.

#MYANMAR: Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed the Rohingya crisis on ‘false information’.

#EXTREMELY HARD: UK newspapers revealed leaked documents outlining plans for an ‘extreme form of hard Brexit’.

PARTING SHOT

Syrian Almuthna Loulah, a university lecturer in his home country who is currently based in the government’s refugee reception centre in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, today presented President Michael D Higgins with a violin he had constructed at Áras an Uachtaráin.

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