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

IRELAND

The blaze from the Bank Building in Belfast which caught fire today.Source: Liam McBurney/PA Images

• It was confirmed that the presidential election will be held on Friday 26 October.
• An enormous fire engulfed a flagship Primark store in a historic 230-year-old Belfast building.
• A 13-year-old boy accused of the murder of Kildare schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel has been sent forward to trial.
• An Post has announced the closure of 159 rural post offices across 25 counties.
• Hosepipe bans are to continue until the end of next month across 16 counties. 
• Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy says he expects to see an increase in the latest homeless figures.
• More people are returning to Ireland than leaving the country for the first time since 2009.
• Gardaí are investigating an alleged incident of racial abuse involving the Rose of Tralee winner Kirsten Mate Maher.
• Bono has said that he's proud of how European countries "rallied behind Ireland on the border issue" in Brexit negotiations. 

WORLD

US President Donald Trump holds up a World Cup jersey given to him as a gift by Fifa President Gianni InfantinoSource: UPI/PA Images

#FAKE NEWS: US President Donald Trump has taken aim at Google, claiming that news search results were “rigged” against him.

#BREXIT: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said that a no-deal Brexit “wouldn’t be a walk in the park” but “wouldn’t be the end of the world”.

#BEIJING: China looks set to scrap its two-child policy by 2020, overhauling decades of family-planning rules.  

PARTING SHOT

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Ahead of a visit to Robben Island in South Africa, Theresa May was asked by Channel 4 News whether she agreed with Margaret Thatcher's assertion that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. She didn't answer the question.

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