Murphy to explain failure of deal
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Secretary of State Paul Murphy is due to brief the cabinet and Parliament on the failed negotiations to restore devolution to Northern Ireland.
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Tony Blair&#39;s bid to revive one of the crowning achievements of his seven-year premiership - the Good Friday Agreement - failed yesterday.
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The top U.S. general and diplomat in Iraq are expected to argue against a major decrease in troop levels for now in much-awaited testimony to Congress on Monday, but leading Democrats said the administration was pursuing a failed strategy.
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The setbacks included the resignation of a top official and an announcement that talks on a critical trade dispute had failed to resolve differences.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said Saturday.    Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern had tried for three days to broker an agreement between Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, and the Democratic Unionists, who represent most of the province's British Protestant majority...
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The Bush administration is billing  the collapse of world trade talks this week as good news for  its drive to renew negotiating powers in Congress, but it is  not clear that U.S. lawmakers will see things that way.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, are expected to concede in Belfast today that another Northern Ireland peace process initiative has ended in frustrating failure.
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Some elements of the Good Friday Agreement will have to be changed if progress is to be made, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said today.
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The Taoiseach and British Prime Minister will travel to Belfast this afternoon resigned to the collapse of their efforts to strike a political deal in the North because of a deadlock over visual proof of IRA ...
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A disappointed but determined prime minister said last night he had not given up hope of reaching a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland.
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NI Secretary Paul Murphy says it will be difficult for the political parties to agree on a way to restore devolution.
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Paddy Ashdown presents his plan after he was rebuffed as U.N. special envoy.
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Former Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy is to take up the post again after Peter Hain's resignation
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The embattled attorney general offered no clear explanation of the reasons for his departure or its timing.
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Way to verify IRA&#39;s decommissioning of arms is last obstacle to deal on N. Ireland. By Tod Robberson. LONDON -- Northern Ireland&#39;s feuding leaders came close but ultimately failed to reach a peace agreement
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Talks over restructuring a $10.3 billion deal to sell Home Depot's wholesale distribution business went down to the wire yesterday, the expected closing date for the agreement.
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The British and Irish governments are due to present the DUP and Sinn FÃ©in with further clarification today of their proposals for a deal on the North&#39;s political future.