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IRELAND

Taoiseach Micheál Martin visits the site of an explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal PA PA

• The search-and-recovery operation at Creeslough in Co Donegal wound down, after Gardaí confirmed the deaths of 10 people after an explosion in a filling station
• President Michael D Higgins said the tragedy was “a terrible blow” that will be felt “by every member of the community and far beyond”
• Gardaí said they believed the cause of the blast was a “tragic accident” and confirmed that 10 people were killed
• A man appeared in court charged with the murder of his cousin Thomas Dooley at Rath Cemetery Tralee on Wednesday last
• DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said his party will not return to powersharing in Northern Ireland unless “decisive action” is taken to remove Brexit’s Irish Sea border
• A man was charged and over €350,000 worth of diamorphine and cocaine has been seized by Gardaí after a raid in Dublin yesterday afternoon

WORLD

Flame and smoke rise from the Crimean Bridge connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#CRIMEA: An explosion has caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula, damaging a key supply artery for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine

#ZAPORIZHZIA: The Ukrainian power plant has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is relying on emergency diesel generators

#IRAN: Protests entered their fourth week as ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi posed for a group photograph with students at Tehran’s all-female Al-Zahra University to mark the new academic year