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IRELAND

Mourners watch members of the Irish Defences Forces escort the coffin draped in an Irish Tricolour flag at John Bruton's State Funeral at the Peter and Paul’s Church, Main Street Dunboyne, Co Meath. Leon Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leon Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

WORLD

Palestinians walk along a street after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Friday. Fatima Shbair / AP/PA Fatima Shbair / AP/PA / AP/PA

#RAFAH: The Tánaiste said that Israel encroaching on Rafah would “entail grave violations of international humanitarian law”.

#ENGLAND: Police in the UK searched an area of the River Thames in central London for alkali attack suspect Abdul Ezedi.

#EU: The EU Parliament and member states reached an agreement in the early hours of this morning on reforms to EU budgetary rules.

PARTING SHOT

In the latest of his reports from Turkey, our reporter Nicky Ryan speaks to some of the survivors and refugees from Turkey’s worst earthquake in more than half a century.

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