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

IRELAND

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• An Irish woman was charged over the death of a newborn baby.
• FG says it will sort out the party’s accounts in Enda Kenny’s constituency.
  
• Yellow alert: it’s about to start lashing rain.
• The High Court has intervened in the Greyhound dispute.
• The NHS says it is not specifically looking for Irish blood.
• One of the deadliest types of jellyfish has been spotted in Dublin Bay.
• The government is backing the man behind Alan Shatter’s resignation.
• Gardaí are searching for a hit-and-run driver in Cork.
• Rory McIlroy has taken the lead at the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

INTERNATIONAL

Displaced Iraqi Christians sleep at a church in Northern Iraq amid major tensions in the area. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#IRAQ: The US has launched an air strike against Islamic militants ISIS in Iraq. President Barack Obama said the US is trying to halt a potential “genocide“.

#GAZA: Israel has resumed air strikes on Gaza after militants fired rockets from Palestine as the fragile three day truce came to an end earlier today.

#ON TRIAL: The verdict in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial will be delivered on 11 September, Judge Thokozile Masipa has confirmed.

INNOVATION

• Stephen King, John Grisham and 907 other authors have written an open letter to Amazon asking it to end a bitter publishing dispute which it says is hurting writers [New York Times]
  
• Google’s lawyers are having their busiest summer ever as the internet giant deals with headache after headache [Quartz]

PARTING SHOT

Medyan Dairieh, a reporter with VICE News, has spent three weeks embedded with ISIS, the Islamic militant group which has taken over large parts of Iraq. This video, the first of a five-part documentary, shows the extraordinary access he had to the militants within the caliphate, and how things have changed significantly in Iraq. [Vice]