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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Everyone’s talking about an investigation into a garda, a beheading video and Electric Picnic.

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

IRELAND

Electric Picnic 2014. Pictured are fes Genevieve Owens and Tara Hewitt Murphy arriving on site for the Electric Picnic. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

INTERNATIONAL

Ukraine Captured Ukrainian border guards sit in a garage at the Novoazovsk border crossing point, in eastern Ukraine. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#UKRAINE: The death toll in Ukraine has risen to 2,600 and the west is turning up the pressure on Russia.

#ISLAMIC STATE: The Islamic State has released another beheading video. The video reportedly shows a group of Kurdish men in orange jumpsuits.

#TERROR THREAT: The UK has upped its terror threat from “substantial” to “severe”, in reaction to the unrest in Syria and Iraq.

#ICELAND: Iceland closed, then reopened, their airspace after an eruption next the volcano Bardarbunga.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

If you’re home this weekend instead of in Stradbally, why not binge watch all of the year’s best TV? That way, when your friends come back from seeing Outkast, you’ll know more about US comedy and drama. Vox.com has the skinny.

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