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Here’s What Happened Today: Thursday

The Jobstown water protest charges and devastation in China had people talking today.

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

IRELAND

Trainwreck collides 1 Schumer and Judd Apatow pictured with Panti Bliss at live Q&A session Trainwrecks Collide at the O'Reilly Theatre at Belvedere College, Dublin. Brian McEvoy Brian McEvoy

INTERNATIONAL

China Port Explosion Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. Ng Han Guan Ng Han Guan

#CHINA: The death toll has risen to 50 after a series of explosions at an industrial area in the Chinese port of Tianjin.

#SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius is set to be freed on parole next week – after serving just ten months in jail.

#DORSET: A five-year-old has died after her head became stuck in a lift at a house in Weymouth in the UK.

#LONDON: Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into some allegations of sexual assault against Julian Assange.

#US: Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement for having banned items in her cell, including Vanity Fair’s Caitlyn Jenner issue.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

It turns out bears are afraid of UFOs, more specifically drones. [IFLScience]

Originally published: 21.00

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