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

IRELAND

The Night Belongs to Youth, a parade run by Creative Places in Enniscorthy gathering today on Vinegar Hill outside the Co Wexford town. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• The Israeli Defence Forces were accused of firing shots in the vicinity of a group of diplomats, including two from Ireland.
• One of the members of Irish rap group Kneecap was charged with a terror offence by UK police.
• Over 80% of badgers culled in a government TB programme were later found to be free from the disease The Journal Investigates revealed. 
• Garda and PSNI investigations into far-right incitement at protests and riots have shown agitators from outside Ireland involved in amplifying and directing demonstrations across the island.
• A cousin of Tina Satchwell became emotional as she told the Central Criminal Court how murder accused Richard Satchwell offered her the same freezer in which he later said he kept the body of his wife before burying her beneath their home.
• Simon Harris said he will bring a memo with details of the revised version of the Occupied Territories Bill to Cabinet this week.
• Disability rights advocate Cara Darmody met with the Taoiseach as the 14-year-old continued her protest outside the Dáil.
• It emerged that Meta told Enterprise Minister Peter Burke to warn that a €200 million European fine against it last month would be harmful to Irish businesses and consumers.

INTERNATIONAL

Donald Trump surprising South Africa leader Cyril Ramaphosa during today's meeting. PA PA

#WHITE HOUSE SURPRISE: In more bizarre scenes from the Oval Office, Donald Trump played a surprise video of baseless claims of “white genocide” in South Africa to the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa.

#GAZA: While Israel had appeared to believe it could carry out its war on Gaza with impunity, this has changed in recent days thanks to an aid blockade and a warning that 14,000 babies could die, heaping Western pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu.

#SPAIN: A former advisor to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot dead outside the American School of Madrid in what appeared to have been a targeted attack.

PARTING SHOT

WHAT’S THE VERDICT on James Browne’s stint as Housing Minister so far? From disputed figures to a plan for livable sheds – not to mention the aborted housing tsar role – it’s certainly been eventful.

On this week’s edition of The Candidate podcast, The Journal weighed up his time in the job and how he’s become an exposed flank for the Government. You can listen here.