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LAST UPDATE | 21 Aug 2025
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
Israel has started a ground offensive around Gaza City after days of bombing and artillery fire, with many Palestinians forced to flee to escape the warfare.
Israeli troops are closing in around the city and have seized control of its outskirts with the intention to move in and take hold of it entirely, according to reports by the BBC and Haaretz.
A massive web of fake shops targeting Irish Facebook users has been uncovered.
The Journal Investigates has revealed that almost 100 pages have attempted to scam shoppers with more than 50,000 Meta ads.
Guinness producer Diageo is to lodge plans with Kildare County Council to double the brewery capacity of its €200m brewery at Littleconnell, Co Kildare.
Diageo had already earmarked the Co Kildare brewery as a production hub for Diageo lager and ales including Rockshore, Harp, Hop House 13, Smithwick’s, Kilkenny and Carlsberg.
Gardaí are investigating a woman with a large following on social media who allegedly scammed many people after she claimed to have Electric Picnic tickets for sale.
The woman never transferred the tickets after people allegedly paid her the money for them.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin but only after his country has received security guarantees to ensure Russia does not re-invade.
Lyle and Erik Menendez will appear before California’s parole board to seek freedom this week, more than 35 years after the shotgun murders of their parents in the family’s luxury Beverly Hills home.
The separate hearings – Erik on Thursday, Lyle on Friday – are the latest chapter in a long campaign waged by friends, family and celebrities like Kim Kardashian to get the brothers out of prison.
The state of Texas’s lower has chamber passed a contentious new electoral map that aims to help Donald Trump’s Republican Party retain its razor-thin majority in the US Congress in elections next year.
The vote had been delayed by two weeks after Democratic legislators fled Texas to try to halt the aggressive redistricting drive, which carves out five new Republican-friendly districts.
US authorities are using AI-powered surveillance tools to target non-US citizens who support Palestine and to aid with its migrant crackdown, according to Amnesty International.
Amnesty International has reviewed documentation which shows that AI tools Babel X and Palantir’s Immigration OS have automated capabilities that enable constant mass monitoring and surveillance, often for the purpose of targeting non-US citizens.
RTÉ has announced its upcoming shows for the new autumn to spring season and it includes documentaries on Ryanair, and a behind-the-scenes look at Cork University Hospital, and an appearance from comedian Rosie O’Donnell.
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