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- 123 dead, over 100 injured in Pakistan oil tanker fire
An overturned oil tanker exploded killing at least 123 people in Pakistan, as most of the victims had gathered round when spilt fuel from the stricken vehicle ignited, officials said. - Cyber attack on UK MPs email accounts 'contained'
British government sources say a cyber attack on the Westminster parliamentary computer system appears to have been contained. - Sean Whelan: Beware the Brexit goggles
Brexit goggles cause the wearer to see a Brexit angle in everything - trade, travel, transport, the economy, tax policy, terrorism, football: you name it, it's all about Brexit, writes Sean Whelan, Economics Correspondent. - Rescuers continue search for 118 missing in landslide
Rescue workers in China are continuing to search for 118 people still missing more than 24 hours after a landslide buried a mountain village, with hopes fading after 15 bodies were pulled out of the rock and mud during the first day of the search. - Yemen faces world's worst cholera outbreak
The World Health Organisation and the UN childrens' agency UNICEF say that Yemen is now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world with over 200,000 suspected cases of the disease. - Taoiseach pledges to use office to advance LGBT rights
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he will use the office of Taoiseach to advance the cause of LGBT rights and to press for marriage equality across Ireland. - Tally of high-rise blocks to fail safety tests rises
Some 34 high-rise buildings in 17 local authorities across the UK have failed fire cladding safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the British government has said. - Man dies at Body & Soul festival in Westmeath
A man has died at the three-day Body & Soul festival in Co Westmeath today. - 'New approach' needed towards unionists on Irish unity
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland. - O'Sullivan may well have to resign - junior minister
A newly appointed junior minister appears to have broken ranks with the Government and said Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan "may well have to resign". - Statue of broadcaster Wogan unveiled in native Limerick
A bronze statue of the broadcaster Terry Wogan has been unveiled in his native Limerick city. - Elderly woman dies in Wicklow house fire
A woman in her 80s has died in a house fire in Co Wicklow this afternoon. - Qatar says Saudi-led demands not 'reasonable'
Qatar has said that a 13-point list of demands made by Saudi Arabia and its allies impinged on its sovereignty and failed to meet US expectations they be "reasonable". - Appeal for teenager missing from Cork area
Gardaí in Cork are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 17-year-old Mary Redic. - Will Goodbody: Uber was an accident waiting to happen
Over the past few years, to those of us on the outside looking in, watching Uber has been like observing a car crash in slow motion, writes Will Goodbody, Science & Technology Correspondent. - Three arrested after €350,000 in cash recovered
Three men in their 40s have been arrested in Dublin for money laundering offences. - British business group worry over cross-border trade
Solutions are needed to Irish border issues after Brexit, a leading UK business group the CBI has said. - Heroin worth €100,000 seized by gardaí in Dublin raids
Gardaí seized heroin worth €100,000 in two separate searches in Dublin yesterday. - French journalist wounded in Mosul mine blast dies
A French journalist wounded in the same mine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this week, has died, employers France Televisions has announced. - Pedestrian dies in Co Mayo road collision
An elderly pedestrian has died after being struck by a car in Co Mayo in the early hours of this morning
