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News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Monday

Coding in schools, summer heat wave and Russia’s doping programme.

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

IRISH

18/07/2016 Dublin Weather Scenes. Pictured is Ryan Ryan Thornton Finglas jumping into the River Liffey RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

WORLD

Guide dog puppies on the London Eye Guide dogs in training take a ride on the London Eye. Doug Peters / PA Images Doug Peters / PA Images / PA Images

#TURKEY: As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to wipe out the “virus” of the putschists, 9,000 public servants were sacked.

#DOPING: The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has called for Russia to be banned from all international sporting competition, including next month’s Olympic Games.

#NICE: French police investigating the Nice truck attack say that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had “a clear, recent interest in the radical jihadist movement”.

#TRUMP: The Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland, but the line-up isn’t exactly stellar.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

Baby gorilla born at Dublin Zoo Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

A new addition to Dublin Zoo, a baby western lowland gorilla born to mother Zena, just two months after its father Harry died. Zookeepers don’t yet know the sex of the baby gorilla.

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