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GOOD MORNING. HERE’S everything you need to know as another day gets underway.
1. The 34th Dáil will sit for the first time this morning in Leinster House following the general election last month.
2. Russia has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army’s chemical weapons division, investigators have said.
3. Gunfire rattles in the distance, warplanes roar overhead and nearby shelling makes the ground tremble, more than a year and a half into a grinding war between rival Sudanese generals.
Embattled health workers “have no choice but to continue”.
4. A disqualified driver who waved at gardaí as he drove through a garda checkpoint during a pursuit on Christmas Day two years ago has been jailed for almost three years.
5. Doctors without borders staff working in Gaza were trapped in their homes and offices by bombing and gunfire in an area densely populated with displaced Palestinians.
6. US authorities have charged the man suspected of fatally shooting a health insurance CEO in New York earlier this month with murder, including a second-degree murder charge “as an act of terrorism.”
7. Belfast rap trio Kneecap has been shortlisted in two categories for Oscars 2025.
8. Founder of Greenpeace and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released from a prison in Greenland after authorities there dropped extradition proceedings which would’ve made him face charges in Japan.
9. A single person would need a pension of €33,600 a year, and a couple would need €43,200 a year, in order to have a “comfortable” retirement, RTÉ has reported, based on figures by the Pensions Council of Ireland.
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