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IRELAND

DSPCA Volunteer Co-ordinator Joanne McGarry with Ôlil red and Biddy. Lorraine O'Sullivan Lorraine O'Sullivan

• Two men have been held in custody until they lodge bail money after they were charged with violent disorder and assaults on two gardaí in Ballyfermot in Dublin. A third will appear before court tomorrow morning. 
• Information leaflets will be delivered to residents across Dublin’s East Wall area from tomorrow as part of a “process of communication”.
• The Irish rental market has seen record levels of rent inflation in the last 12 months, as there continues to be an “extreme” shortage of properties available to rent.
• The Government put forward a counter motion to the Sinn Féin private members’ motion seeking to declare a “housing emergency”.
• Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has urged people to be civil in public discourse following an incident in which a woman chanted a pro-IRA slogan during an encounter with Arlene Foster.
• The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) said it can find no evidence of co-ordinated pricing behaviour among service stations earlier this year.
• The Cabinet has cleared the way for major new laws which, the Government say, will radically change policing in Ireland.
• The sale of vaping products will be prohibited from self-service vending machines, temporary or mobile premises and at events for children under new regulations approved today.
• Ireland’s largest animal welfare charity has issued a call for additional volunteers amid a “concerning surge” in surrendered pet rabbits and other small animals.

INTERNATIONAL

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#INDONESIA The death toll from an earthquake that shook Indonesia’s main island of Java has risen to 252, according to a local official.

#IRAN The UN’s top rights body will hold an urgent meeting this week to consider launching an international investigation into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking Iran.

#HOLOCAUST German prosecutors are seeking a two-year suspended sentence for a 97-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary in what they described as one of the last such trials.

#EUROVISION A major change to the way in which voting happens during the Eurovision Song Contest has been announced.

#SOCIALMEDIA Twitter boss Elon Musk postponed the relaunch of paid verification on the platform, extending a suspension he previously said would end this month.

PARTING SHOT

Cristiano Ronaldo on one of his final appearances for Man United. PA PA

Lionel Messi’s Argentina grabbed all the headlines for the wrong reasons after a shock 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia in the World Cup, but arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo is also making the news. 

It comes after Manchester United announced Ronaldo’s exit from the club, eight days after the first revelations were published from his explosive interview with Piers Morgan. 

Ronaldo is currently in Qatar with Portugal, competing at what will be his final World Cup. After that attention will turn to his next destination, with Ronaldo telling Morgan that he turned down an offer from Saudi club in the summer. 

Meanwhile, the Belgian FA confirmed to The42 that FIFA requested Belgium remove the word ‘Love’ from their away jersey for commercial reasons.

The ‘Love’ jersey issue is separate to Fifa’s banning of the rainbow-coloured One Love armband, which Belgium and other European teams dropped yesterday afternoon following a separate armband edict from Fifa. 

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