Northern Ireland's old enemies struggle to bury hatchet
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Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley and Catholic former IRA leader Martin McGuinness must ditch their mutual enmity to share power in Northern Ireland following Wednesday's elections.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - As Elizabeth Ferguson  watches her possessions load on to a removal truck outside her  north Belfast home, it is easy to see why she and her neighbors  have little faith in Northern Ireland's peace process.
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The British and Irish prime ministers have presented bitterly divided Northern Ireland politicians with what their governments insist is their final plan for restoring home rule in the province.
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Talks to reintroduce power sharing in Northern Ireland have reached a stalemate over the issue of photographing the handover of IRA weapons.
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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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Pressure on the IRA to make the disarmament move that would revive Northern Ireland - s peace process has been dangerously neglected, a senior Ulster Unionist warned tonight.
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Hard-liners raced ahead Thursday in an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly &#151; and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - A major push to seal  a political settlement for the turbulent British province of  Northern Ireland stalled at the last moment Wednesday over  demands for photographic evidence of IRA guerrillas scrapping  their arms.
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Four decades after he barged onto Northern Ireland&#39;s rancorous political stage vowing never to compromise, Protestant cleric Ian Paisley holds the key to striking a new deal to seal peace in the province.
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Northern Ireland may have enjoyed an uneasy peace in recent years, but as illustrated by a massive bank robbery in December, the fear is that paramilitary gangs have simply turned their guns from politics to profit.
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BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- In Northern Ireland, hopes of reviving stalled talks between nationalist and unionist political parties have been dealt a blow by an Irish Republican Army refusal to deliver photographic proof of disarmament.
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The family of a Catholic man slain by IRA members demanded an end Wednesday to the intimidation that dissuades Catholics from cooperating with police &#151; a crucial but often overlooked problem in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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The DUP says that it is getting impatient with the IRA over the issue of decommissioning.
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While Northern Ireland seeks to build a better peace for its Protestant and Catholic communities, its paramilitary groups have traded in their full-time sectarian violence for a lucrative life of crime.
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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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NEWRY, Northern Ireland -- From the windows of a 19th-century textile mill that long lay derelict, Feargal McCormack looked past the Catholic row houses that once seethed with poverty and anger to the road along the Newry canal, where car bombs went off and snipers lurked for 30 years of sectarian violence.
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Britain and Ireland are battling to break a deadlock between Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic-backed parties on the eve of a crunch deadline to restore self-rule in the province.