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LAST UPDATE | 6 May 2025
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. #GAZA: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has condemned Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip in Palestine as a war crime, insisting the blockade must be lifted immediately in order to prevent “a hunger crisis”
2. #COURTS: Former Armagh GAA captain Aidan Nugent has appeared in court charged with alleged sexual assault offences
3. #GERMANY: German Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has finally succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round
4. #ISRAEL: Israel’s finance minister has said that a victory for his country in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas means the Gaza Strip will be “entirely destroyed”
5. #BBC: Gerry Adams has said he would not “speculate” on who was in the IRA, during a defamation case he has taken against the BBC
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