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

Chole Connolly (3) and Baily McKenna, from Tallaght*t Baldonnell, to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of humanitarian and revolutionary Roger Casement. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

IRISH

• Four Irish people were on board the Emirates flight that crash landed in Dubai International Airport. 
• Gardaí are investigating armed robberies at post offices in Kerry and Kilkenny. 
• A man is to be extradited to the Czech Republic after seven years on the run in Ireland.
• Gardaí have rescued 14 puppies from the boot of a car at Dublin Port.
• Ireland is about to get its own version of Strictly Come Dancing.
• Crowds gathered at Glasnevin Cemetery to mark the centenary of Roger Casement’s execution.
• The Wicklow Mountains National park has got bigger after the government purchased 4,900 acres.
• In the latest TheJournal.ie FactCheck, we ask: Who got it right on “abortion up to birth” – Cora Sherlock or Ivana Bacik?

WORLD

Sailors on a Japanese navy ship wave as the vessel is pulled down the Thames in London by tugs today. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#MISSILE: North Korea fired a ballistic missile 250km into the sea off northern Japan.

#ACCIDENT: Nine children were wounded in the UK after an inflatable slide broke free.

#TREASON: A US transit police officer has been charged with trying to support the Islamic State.

#WAR ON DRUGS: Philippines police have shot dead six supporters of Rolando Espinosa, days after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to have the politician “shot on sight” for protecting his drug dealer son.

#RETCH: French president Francois Hollande has said Republican nominee Donald Trump “makes you want to retch”.

INNOVATION

• A major Bitcoin exchange has suspended trading after $65 million in the virtual unit was reportedly stolen by hackers.
• If you’re thinking of buying a new phone soon, it’s possible you will get one with a different type of USB charger.

PARTING SHOT

WATCH: Locals in the favelas of Rio say gun violence has got worse in the buildup to the Olympics, which begin on Friday night.