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

Olympian Phil Healy, Irish International Athlete at Cork City Council’s Women’s Caucus supporting Women in Sport - ‘from Participation to Podium’, Cork City Council Today. Clare Keogh Clare Keogh

IRELAND

• Police in Northern Ireland launched a murder investigation into the death of a woman after her body was discovered in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh yesterday.
• Government “may well” take action on easing the pressure of the rising cost of petrol and diesel on consumers, the Minister for European Affairs said – but cutting the scheduled carbon tax increase would be “the last thing” he’d do.
• President Catherine Connolly said the war in the Middle East constitutes “deliberate assaults on international law” and affirmed Ireland’s constitutional commitment to peace.
• A man in his 30s died and two other people were hospitalised following a single-vehicle crash in west Dublin yesterday evening.
• The Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking an early trial date for a 95-year-old man charged with alleged indecent assaults of a child over a two-year period almost half a century ago, a court heard.

INTERNATIONAL

Shiite Muslims chant slogans during a demonstration to condemn the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and against the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Lahore, Pakistan. AP Photo / K.M. Chaudary AP Photo / K.M. Chaudary / K.M. Chaudary

#IRAN: US President Donald Trump warned that Iran’s next supreme leader would not last long without his approval, as Tehran prepared to reveal the successor to the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

#UK: British prime minister Keir Starmer spoke to Donald Trump about the countries’ military co-operation amid the US president’s latest rebuke over the UK’s support in the conflict in Iran.

#OSLO: Police in Norway are investigating an explosion outside the US Embassy in Oslo, officials said.

PARTING SHOT

Former Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt and comedian Vittorio Angelone. X X

IRISH COMEDIAN VITTORIO Angelone left an audience in stitches after a sharp exchange with a former UK government minister during an appearance on a Channel 4 panel show on Friday evening.

Angelone, who is from Belfast, made his first appearance on The Last Leg this week alongside former Conservative MP and defence secretary Penny Mordaunt.