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IRELAND

People stand in the rain at a vigil for the victims of the Creeslough explosion Diarmuid Pepper / The Journal Diarmuid Pepper / The Journal / The Journal

• Gardaí named the 10 victims of the Creeslough explosion
• Tributes continued to pour in for the victims, their families and the Creeslough community, including from Pope Francis
• Gardaí in Offaly appealed for information on a missing 28-year-old man
• The Republic of Ireland drew with Netherlands, France, Greece, and Gibraltar in Group B for Euro 2024
• A cafe owner was ordered to pay out €2,500 in compensation to a teenage waitress in a workplace sexual harassment case
• Brokers said that mortgage customers who wish to switch lenders in a bid to save money or avoid interest rate hikes are facing delays of several weeks
• PSNI detectives made a renewed appeal for information on the murder of Sean Fox in Belfast last week

WORLD
A dinosaur teddy in the rubble at Zaporizhzhia ABACA / PA Images ABACA / PA Images / PA Images
#UKRAINE: A Russian missile strike has killed at least 13 people in Zaporizhzhia, a day a key bridge linking Russia with the annexed Crimean peninsula was partially destroyed by an explosion

#IRAN: Hackers have interrupted a state TV news broadcast with an image of gun-sight crosshairs and flames over the face of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

#NORTH KOREA: Seoul and Tokyo have said that North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the sea, the seventh such launch in two weeks

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