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Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Everyone’s talking about potential leaders for Labour, the acting Garda Commissioner and John Wilson shaking hands and the death of Maya Angelou.

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

IRELAND

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INTERNATIONAL

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#ACCLAIMED: American writer Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.

#AMERICA: Barack Obama has announced that “US forces will complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016.”

#FIRE: A patient with dementia was questioned after 21 people died in a fire at a hospital for the elderly.

INNOVATION

  • Skype is planning a feature that will translate in real-time so two people with different languages can chat away. [TheJournal.ie
  • Google has started building its own self-driving car which have no steering wheel or brakes. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

This is the video footage of deceased writer Maya Angelou reciting her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the 1993 Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton.

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