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IRELAND

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• A 19-year-old man was charged with the murder of an Irish Rail worker who was found dead in at his home in Carrick-on-Suir in Co Tipperary on 4 August.
• Pharmaceutical exports from the EU to the United States will be subjected to a 15% tariff rate, according to a joint US-EU statement detailing the new trade deal today.
• A Garda under investigation in relation to the death of a man in Dublin city centre was suspended from duty.
• An English tourist in his 40s was hospitalised following a serious assault in Temple Bar in the early hours of this morning.
• Ireland is among 21 countries to sign a joint statement calling Israel’s approval of a major settlement project in the occupied West Bank “unacceptable and a violation of international law”.
• A young man travelling to a comic book convention in the United States was stopped by Homeland Security at Dublin Airport with child sex abuse animation images, a court heard.
• The Journal Investigates revealed that almost 100 pages have attempted to scam shoppers with more than 50,000 Meta ads.
• It comes as a fresh wave of fraudulent investment advertisements is circulating widely on social media.
• Guinness producer Diageo is to lodge plans to double the brewery capacity of its €200m state-of-the-art carbon neutral brewery at Co Kildare.
• Some small primary schools could remain closed next week as caretakers and secretaries are set to begin an indefinite strike for parity in public sector pensions and employment conditions.
• An application to extend the Dart from Malahide to Drogheda has been approved by An Coimisiún Pleanála.
• Opposition parties who endorse presidential candidate Catherine Connolly are “anxiously” awaiting the outcome of Sinn Féin’s decision on whether to field their own candidate or back the Independent.
• A second health insurer announced a price increase this week, as Irish Life Health confirmed that it will be raising the cost of its adult health insurance plans by an average of 3 per cent from October.
• As thousands flock to beaches across the country chasing the last of the summer heat, local authorities are warning swimmers to keep their distance from the Lion’s Mane jellyfish. 

INTERNATIONAL

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#GAZA: Benjamin Netanyahu said he has ordered immediate negotiations aimed at freeing all the remaining hostages in Gaza, as Israeli troops hammered the territory’s largest city amid a planned takeover. 
#NEW YORK: A US court threw out a $464 million civil penalty against President Donald Trump imposed by a judge who found he fraudulently inflated his personal worth.
#UKRAINE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any presence of European troops in Ukraine would be “absolutely unacceptable”.
#NORD STREAM: A Ukrainian suspect in the explosives attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia has been arrested in Italy.
#TEXAS: 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.
#CALIFORNIA: 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.

PARTING SHOT

One of the recent posts from the California Governor's social media accounts taking aim at the Trump administration.

Donald Trump is known for his attention-grabbing, clickbait communication style on social media – brash statements and sweeping assertions often delivered with excessive capital letters and exclamation marks. 

A well-known Democrat has started to parody him, and Republicans are deeply unimpressed. 

“DONALD (TINY HANDS), HAS WRITTEN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY THIS MORNING — UNFORTUNATELY (LOW IQ) HE SPELLED IT WRONG — ‘BETA’.”

That was a recent post by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s trying to push back against certain policies and practices being implemented by Trump and his party.

His new tactic has been to highlight the ludicrousness of some of Trump’s political messaging by adopting the style for himself via his press office’s social media.