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News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Thursday

Everyone’s talking about the salaries of top executives at Rehab Group, growing tensions in Crimea, and garda misconduct.

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

imageChief Executive of Rehab Angela Kerins (right) arrives at Leinster House today with John McGuire, Director of Fundraising. (Image Credit: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

INTERNATIONAL

imageAnti-Yanukovych protester sit on top of an army armored vehicle drive past a barricade along a street in central Kiev, Ukraine. (Emilio Morenatti/AP/Press Association Images)

#UKRAINE: Armed men seized control of parliament buildings in Crimea as fears of conflict in the region rise.

#CRIMEA: The region is to hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. [FT]

#NORTH KOREA: The country test-tired four short-range missiles. [AFP]

#ITALY: The captain of the Costa Concordia returned to the ship’s wreck for the first time since the 2012 disaster. [BBC]

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

Remember when you got your first DynaTAC in 1974? No? Well then maybe this overview of the past 40 years of mobile phones will remind you. (h/t Gizmodo)


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