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

IRELAND

• The three coalition leaders are meeting this evening to discuss the timing of the next general election.
• The Tánaiste condemned Israel’s continued attacks on northern Gaza in recent days and called for an immediate ceasefire.
• Lawyers for the State are preparing to put an end to the €100,000 per-week cost of maintaining a cargo ship that was stormed by the Army Rangers.
• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is correcting the Dáil record about a detail in her statement last week regarding the resignation of her party’s former Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile.
• Tributes were paid to LMFM radio host Michael Reade who has died at the age of 58.
• International Protection applicants sleeping in tents on the grounds of the former Crooksling nursing home were moved inside due to Storm Ashley, the Department of Integration said.
• A Sinn Féin Assembly employee has resigned after admitting involvement in an incident where a DUP portrait was damaged at Belfast City Hall.

THE WORLD

A woman prepares to cast her vote in Hrusevo, Moldova yesterday Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MOLDOVA A referendum on Moldova joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority as pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu blamed the narrow outcome on foreign meddling in a veiled reference to Russia, which denied the accusations.

#US The assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally in July was “preventable and should not have happened”, according to a bipartisan investigation into the shooting and associated security failures.

#AUSTRALIA The UK’s King Charles was berated by an Australian senator, who told him “you are not my King”, during a visit to the country’s Parliament House in Canberra.

PARTING SHOT

An airport in New Zealand has made international headlines after putting an unusual spin on trying to reduce the time cars spend in its drop-off zones: it’s put up new signs telling passengers to restrict “hug[ging] time” to three minutes.