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

IRELAND

Two people cover up a dinghy at the East Down Yacht Club after a rescue operation saved competitors in a race. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

• Two directors of the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank have been charged over an alleged €8 million fraud. 
• A major rescue operation at a sailing competition in Strangford Lough, Co Down has finished with all 97 people rescued.
• Plans to carry out test drilling for gas in Fermanagh have been blocked.
• Irish Water says that comparing their costs to established UK utilities is unfair.
• Train strikes planned for the days of GAA finals ‘will go ahead’.
• The Israeli Deputy Ambassador has said that a ‘small minority’ of Irish protesters are an ‘ignorant, anti-Semitic mob’.
• The controversial Dáil “tuck shop” is to reopen as a gift shop selling Oireachtas merchandise.
• Meteor customers are being warned about a text scam.
  
• A Lebanese man suspected of killing two Irish soldiers is to be deported from the US.

INTERNATIONAL

Andrew Douglas and five-year-old Grace Carruthers launch the Glasgow International Piping Festival. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ISLAMIC STATE: The US has begun urgently shipping arms and ammunition to Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting Jihadists.

#UKRAINE: Over 100 inmates escaped from a Donetsk prison after it was hit by shelling.

#US: There was looting and rioting in a suburb of St. Louis after an unarmed young black man was shot dead by police.

#UK: A man who impersonated a Premier League footballer has been charged with running up a bar bill using illegal credit card details.

INNOVATION

• There have been warnings for Irish internet users after a security breach that could have seen 1.2 billion passwords hacked.
  
• BuzzFeed has secured a $50 million investment valuing the company at $850 million.

PARTING SHOT

In what is surely a nightmare scenario for reluctant thrillseekers, a Washington rollercoaster got stuck for five hours leaving 24 people hanging 75 feet off the ground.