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NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a run-down of today’s news.

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• Irish troops were unharmed after Israel’s army opened different positions held by UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
• Alleged key gang leader of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group Sean McGovern has been arrested in Dubai.
• Coalition leaders will be briefed by the Attorney General next week on the current legal standing of the Occupied Territories Bill.
• A former Trump administrative advisor has resigned from his position as an advisor for a Congressional candidate’s campaign in the fallout from a post to X he made last week calling for Israel to “drop napalm” over Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon. 
• A teacher who admitted a “once-off” sexual encounter with a former student has failed in an attempt to block phone evidence obtained by their former partner being used in a fitness-to-teach inquiry.
• Former Sinn …