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IRELAND

Walkers strolls along Dollymount in Dublin. Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The Department of Foreign Affairs has called for ‘maximum restraint’ following  the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
• The funeral of veteran broadcaster Marian Finucane will be held this Tuesday 7 January in Co Kildare. 
• Gardaí have seized a significant quantity of guns and ammunition following a search in north Dublin targeting gangland criminals. 
• At least eight men died after taking GHB over the last two years, according to an Irish chemsex expert.  
• The Department of Justice has said that a video of cramped Direct Provision room that was shared online ‘appears to have been staged’.
• Gardaí in Galway seized €140,000 worth of heroin following the search of a car in Loughrea. 
• For the public service to transition to a four-day working week it could cost at least €3.9 billion, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said.
• Several queries were sent to the Irish government from people concerned about the implications of the DeSouza ruling on their citizenship status. 

WORLD

Mourners take to the streets of Baghdad. PA Images PA Images

#MIDDLE-EAST: Iraq’s Prime Minister attended a mourning procession in Baghdad for Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed in a US strike the previous day.

#AUSTRALIA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has faced more criticism  after sharing a wildfire themed campaign video.

#PALM BEACH: Scottish popstar Rod Stewart has been charged after allegedly punching a hotel security guard outside a children’s party in Florida. 

#MOST HAUNTED: TV mystic Derek Acorah, host of TV show Most Haunted, has died aged 69. 

PARTING SHOT

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A skeleton found by hikers last autumn near California’s second-highest peak has been identified as a Japanese-American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II.

It’s a reminder of one of the darkest chapters of US history when more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent — two-thirds American citizens — were imprisoned during the conflict.

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