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Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Everyone’s talking about jobs in Dundalk, the IMF’s thoughts on Budget 2015, and the glorious sunshine.

Updated 9.53pm

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

Dublin Heat Wave. Pictured enjoying one Pictured here is seven-year-old Paul Crowley from Inchicore, enjoying one of the hottest days of the year so far at Seapoint Beach in Co. Dublin. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

WORLD

India Daily Life Indian labourers sitting on mules and a donkey, right, leave for work in the morning in Allahabad, India. AP Photo / Rajesh Kumar Singh AP Photo / Rajesh Kumar Singh / Rajesh Kumar Singh

#IRAQ: The country’s foreign minister called on the United States to carry out air strikes on militants.

#MALAYSIA: More than two dozen are missing and nine confirmed dead after a boat carrying Indonesian illegal migrants overturned.

#NIGERIA: 21 died in a bomb attack at a World Cup viewing centre.

#UNITED STATES: Two men were put to death in the first executions since a botched lethal injection in April.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

A new app that allows you to send the word “Yo”, and nothing else, to friends is taking the world by the storm. Yo. Yo? Yo.

Originally published 9pm

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