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

IRELAND

President Michael D. Higgins pictured with Eoghan Murphy TD presenting credentials to Rizal Sukma, the Indonesian Ambassador MaxwellPhotography.ie MaxwellPhotography.ie

• A man has been shot five times in the latest Dublin gangland attack. 
• An order to freeze all assets of former Console CEO and wife has been granted at the High Court. 
• Joe O’Toole has resigned as the head of the commission investigating the water situation in Ireland after an interview in which he said he believed people should pay their water charges. 
• A 34-year-old man from Co Down has died in Cambodia. 
• Buskers in Dublin have been banned from using backing tracks. 
• A woman has been charged with murder after driving her colleague into Wicklow harbour. 
• Two men have been rescued after a fishing vessel sinks off a West Cork island. 
• An Irishman has been arrested in Spain after a year on the run. 
• The government is set to privatise the long-awaited rural broadband network. 

WORLD

A fruit vender sits under an umbrella in India. Monsoon season is currently underway Rajesh Kumar Singh / PA Wire Rajesh Kumar Singh / PA Wire / PA Wire

#PRESIDENTIAL RACE: The FBI has said that it will not push for criminal charges to be taken against Hillary Clinton over a scandal related to her personal emails. 

#SAUDI ARABIA: Three suicide bombers have struck across Saudi Arabia, including one at Medina, Islam’s second holiest site. 

#UK: The race to elect the next British Prime Minister got underway earlier today.

INNOVATION

• Virgin Media is looking to boost its mobile network in Ireland as part of the ongoing rebranding of UPC. 
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PARTING SHOT

We are about to start learning a whole lot more about the planet Jupiter. This is all thanks to Juno, a spacecraft that has just begun orbiting around the distant planet. Here Quartz have taken a look at the incredible journey it had to make to get there. [Quartz]

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