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Lunchtime Fix: 5 things you need to know

Catch up as you refuel.

WHAT’S THE STORY?

1. COULD a 25-year-old cold case be close to being solved? Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of murdering teenager Caroline Graham in 1989.

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2. AN Irish backpacker has been charged with covering up the death of her newborn baby in the Australian outbreak.

3. THE remains of nine victims of the horrifying Jonestown suicide-murder in 1978 were discovered in a decrepit, now-shuttered funeral home in Dover.

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4. THE World Health Organisation has declared a public health emergency of international concern over the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

5. BARACK OBAMA has given the OK for America to launch military strikes against ISIS in Iraq if it is deemed necessary. It’s a move that the majority of participants in our poll agreed with.

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