Former gunman disrupts N.Irish self-rule talks
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Northern Ireland's Stormont parliament buildings were evacuated on Friday after a former paramilitary gunman threw a package at security staff in the building where politicians were meeting to discuss self-rule.
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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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A key Protestant leader in Northern Ireland on Wednesday warned that the Irish Republican Army may resume disarmament in secret, rather than allow the process to be photographed as demanded by Protestants.
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The anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) held crisis talks to slap down a leadership bid by its best-known figure, former television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, officials said.
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Critical peace talks between Sinn Fein leaders and a Northern Ireland Chief Constable will take place later. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness will meet with Chief Constable Hugh Orde in Downing St.
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Three days of intensive Anglo-Irish talks ended without full agreement yesterday, but with the prospect of a significant move by the IRA on the issue of its arsenal.
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A former paramilitary killer sparked chaos in Northern Ireland's Assembly by storming the building with a gun and throwing a device, protesting efforts to restore power-sharing in the province.
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DUBLIN -- Northern Ireland's major Protestant party broke off relations with the Irish government yesterday after Prime Minister Bertie Ahern indicated he had accepted the IRA's refusal to provide photographs of disarmament.
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Former President Bill Clinton returned to Northern Ireland, viewed by many as the scene of one of his main foreign policy successes, to urge rival leaders on Thursday to take the next step toward securing a ...
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BELFAST  - The head of Northern Ireland&#39;s main Protestant party withdrew an earlier threat to sever contact with Dublin after Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern apologized for an apparent misunderstanding over the issue of photographic evidence of IRA
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is to hold talks with his counterpart Tony Blair focused on deadlocked efforts to restore self-government in Northern Ireland.
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A paramilitary killer cut short an already chaotic debate on Northern Ireland's political future on Friday by throwing a bag of homemade explosives into the building where parties were meeting.
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The Irish Republican Army no longer poses a security threat after decades of fighting British rule in Northern Ireland, the province's ceasefire watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern will meet Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain in Wales, to discuss efforts to restore self-rule in Belfast.
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Britain and Ireland struggled to revive negotiations for a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland by mulling ways that Protestants and Catholics could agree on to carry out a credible disarmament of the IRA ...
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The DUP leader speaking after meeting with the head of the decommissioning body General John de Chastelain said nothing had been settled on the arms issue.
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Republicans will have to abandon their guns forever if there is going to be a deal in Northern Ireland to restore power sharing, a senior Democratic Unionist insisted tonight.