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Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about garda whisteblowers, a former journalist facing charges of sexual assault, and dead frogs.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…

imageJustice Minister Alan Shatter arriving at Government buildings this morning to brief his Cabinet colleagues on the details of his department’s examination of its correspondence with the garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe. (Image Credit: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

INTERNATIONAL
imageMotuba, a Western lowland 29-year-old, 432-pound gorilla eats a tomato as he makes his public debut at a zoo in Pennsylvania, the United States. (Image Credit: Matt Rourke/AP/Press Association Images)

#UKRAINE: The interim president formed a unity government

#VENEZUELA: Students staged another protest rally.

#AFGHANISTAN: The United States warned that it could pull out all of its troop if a security agreement is not signed. [BBC]

#UGANDA: A tabloid published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals.

#UNITED KINGDOM: The Conservative Party rebranded. They now want to known as the ‘Workers’ Party’.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT
Photographer Eoin MacDonald-Nethercott caught this stunning 24-hour panorama, taken during the summer months in Antarctica where the sun never sets below the horizon. Find out more about the image on his blog. [European Space Agency]
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(Image Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-E. Macdonald-Nethercott)

Originally published 9.00pm

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