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News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Monday

New leader of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland, three arrested over alleged smuggling of immigrants at Dublin Airport and Trump withdraws US from the TPP, it’s the Evening Fix.

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

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INTERNATIONAL 

Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer PM PM

#US: President Donald Trump has signed a memo withdrawing the US from the controversial trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).

#NUMBERS: Meanwhile, White House press secretary Sean Spicer has defended his comments that Trump’s inauguration was the most watched in history.

#MURDER: Iceland is in mourning after a young woman missing for eight days was found dead on a beach, in a rare crime that gripped the nation.

#PLUNDERED: An exiled Gambia leader stole millions of dollars in his final weeks in power leaving state coffers “empty”.

PARTING SHOT 

This ‘Knife Angel’ sculpture has been created with 100,000 knives collected by 41 police forces across the country via knife amnesties and confiscations.

Here's What Happened Today: Monday
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  • Knife angel sculpture

    Source: PA Wire/PA Images
  • Knife angel sculpture

    Source: PA Wire/PA Images
  • Knife angel sculpture

    Source: PA Wire/PA Images
  • Knife angel sculpture

    Source: PA Wire/PA Images

The sculpture is at the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry, Shropshire.

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