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June

June 2024

RIP

Astronaut who took famous 'Earth rise' photo dies aged 90 in small plane crash

William Anders was piloting the plane when it crashed off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.

8 Jun

10.7k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 It’s count day.

8 Jun

5.6k

UN adds Israel to blacklist for waging war that harms children

8 Jun

6.6k

London

Key moments from the BBC’s seven-way General Election debate

7 Jun

10.2k

Copenhagen

Danish Prime Minister 'hit' by a man in Copenhagen Square

7 Jun

16.0k

Lebanon

Irish peacekeeper Pte Seán Rooney murder trial postponed until February 2025 - local media

7 Jun

6.8k

Symi

Search intensifies on Greek island as divers look for missing TV doctor Michael Mosley

Updated 7 Jun

33.5k

Wildest Dreams

Taylor Swift inches closer to Dublin with revamped Eras Tour as she lands for last stops before Ireland

7 Jun

16.6k

Mistake

Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving international D-Day ceremony for election TV interview

Updated 7 Jun

13.2k

Trial

Widow of Hunter Biden's brother tells court she 'panicked' when she found revolver in truck

7 Jun

11.8k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 The nation goes to the polls to vote in the European and local elections

Updated 7 Jun

4.5k

Arizona

Trump returns to campaign trail and calls for appeals court to reverse his felony conviction

7 Jun

8.5k

Court

Woman said to be inspiration for Baby Reindeer's 'Martha' sues Netflix for $170 million

7 Jun

17.8k

Explainer

Elections: Should you vote the whole way down the ballot paper?

And what exactly is PR-STV? Allow us to explain.

Órla Ryan

Updated 7 Jun

50.2k

Gaza

Netanyahu to address US Congress next month, as Qatar says Hamas yet to respond to ceasefire plan

7 Jun

3.2k

Exclusive

Cancer patients fighting Israeli government to avoid deportation to Gaza

Up to 40 people are affected and, to date, almost half have lodged petitions to stay in Israel and keep receiving medical care.

Lawyer Tamir Blank said patients who cannot receive the treatment or aftercare needed could end up in "a very dire condition"

Some people would have to return to refugee camps where the sanitation is poor and they may "not have access to even basic medical care"

Órla Ryan

7 Jun

17.1k

heatwaves

A third of Irish people think about climate change when choosing their holiday destination

7 Jun

3.3k

The Morning Lead

Life with cancer in Gaza: 'Access to treatment is the least we can ask for in this war'

A man speaks to The Journal’s reporter in Rafah about his wife’s diagnosis – and how she cannot access treatment or find healthy food.

Dima Jalal Saud

7 Jun

4.2k

Oops

BBC apologises for 'inappropriate comment' aired during D-Day programme

6 Jun

56.3k

US Capitol Riot

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon ordered to report to prison for contempt of Congress

6 Jun

14.1k

UNRWA

'Why bomb us?': At least 40 people killed in Israeli airstrike on UN school in Gaza

Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official based in Beirut, said: “There is no (ceasefire) proposal – they are just words said by Biden in a speech.”

Updated 6 Jun

14.8k

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

6 Jun

3.1k

Mortgages

European Central Bank cuts interest rates as banks confirm reductions for tracker mortgages

Updated 6 Jun

26.4k

men on the moon

SpaceX's megarocket Starship launches on fourth test flight

6 Jun

5.2k

normandy

Biden, King Charles, Macron and Zelensky remember D-Day landings under the shadow of Russia's war

6 Jun

7.7k

Symi

TV doctor Michael Mosley reported missing on Greek island

6 Jun

28.4k

Guilty

Man found guilty of headbutting Roy Keane at a football match last year

Updated 6 Jun

24.9k

European elections

And they're off! Dutch voters kick off European Parliament elections across 27 member states

6 Jun

4.5k

The Morning Lead

Vast majority of Irish people think the EU should impose sanctions on Israel

Around a third of voters have boycotted companies associated with Israel in recent months, according to a new opinion poll.

Over three-quarters of people support sanctions, according to the latest opinion poll by The Journal and Ireland Thinks

Eight in 10 younger voters (aged 18 to 34) are in favour of the move, as are at least seven in 10 people across all other age groups

Órla Ryan

6 Jun

17.1k

Assassination Attempt

Slovak PM Robert Fico says he 'forgives' would-be assassin and may return to work in weeks

5 Jun

6.7k

Putin considering arming countries that could strike Western states after arms shipments to Ukraine

5 Jun

21.2k

crack pipe

Hunter Biden’s exes called as witnesses to detail drug use in federal gun trial

5 Jun

10.1k

Lebanon

Syrian gunman arrested as he launched a lone attack on the US Embassy in Beirut

5 Jun

4.8k

Climate Change

Ireland has hottest May on record as world sees 12th consecutive month with warmest average

In Ireland, Met Éireann recorded an average temperature of 13.08 degrees Celsius in May 2024.

Updated 5 Jun

23.7k

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delaware

Hunter Biden gun trial hears from FBI agent about seizure of evidence from infamous laptop

5 Jun

4.9k

Corrie

Coronation Street to bid farewell to Gail Platt after 50-year stint on the soap

5 Jun

20.9k

milkshaked

Woman who threw milkshake over Nigel Farage charged with assault and criminal damage

5 Jun

8.2k

Biden in France to mark D-Day anniversary under Ukraine shadow

Updated 5 Jun

12.1k

Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox re-convicted of slander by an Italian court over accusation of an innocent man

5 Jun

16.4k

Palestine

Famine likely happening in Gaza, but expert group says they can't get access to prove it

5 Jun

5.5k