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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. #US-NIGERIA STRIKES: The US and Nigerian governments coordinated “powerful and deadly” strikes against Islamic State militants in northwestern Nigeria.
2. #UKRAINE TALKS: A meeting with US President Donald Trump will happen “in the near future”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, signalling progress in talks to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
3. #THANKS: The family of a man who died after his car went in to a river as he made his way home from work in heavy rain have expressed their “deepest gratitude” to the people of Conna and Balynoe in east county Cork for their kindness following the tragedy.
4. #DATA CENTRES: Amazon Web Services has been granted planning permission for contentious plans to construct three new data centres in north Dublin.
5. #WREN DAY: The annual tradition of Wren Day has continued in towns and villages around Ireland today, with revellers donning bizarre costumes as they take to the streets.
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