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EVERY MORNING, The Journal brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

Budget

1. Less than two weeks away from Budget day and while we might have a modest understanding of what will be included, some measures have yet to be hammered out before 1 October.

Explosions

2. Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island.

Acquitted 

3. A prominent anti-immigration activist who a court heard accused a creche owner of promoting paedophilia and child molestation for placing children’s drawings of a rainbow flag in a window has been acquitted of committing a breach of the peace over the incident.

NATO

4.NATO ships and an Irish Naval vessel are to conduct an exercise …