Panel: IRA has disbanded key units
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The Irish Republican Army has disbanded units for weapons making, arms smuggling, recruiting and training, an expert panel reported Wednesday in dramatic findings that could boost chances for reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland's largest Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, has lost a legal bid to overturn financial sanctions imposed on it because of IRA activity.
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The IRA denied yesterday that it had any involvement in this week&#39;s Â£22m armed robbery of a Belfast city centre bank. A senior republican source said: &quot;We are dismissing
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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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The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.
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Geoff Hoon is to announce a major restructure of the Army, which will see four battalions cut and some regiments merged.
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In a report to be released Sunday, a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace calls for a 50 percent reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq within three years and a total withdrawal and handover of security to the Iraqi military in five years.
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The top Palestinian security official said the government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbasâs Fatah faction.
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Three members of the military panel established to hear the cases of Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been removed because of concerns about their lack of impartiality.
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A CIA unit that had hunted for Osama bin Laden and his top deputies for a decade has been disbanded, according to a published report.
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The Independent Monitoring Commission says the IRA is continuing to dismantle its structures.
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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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The IRA must disband before a deal can be struck to restore Northern Irelandâs political institutions, Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley said today.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland The peace process in Northern Ireland is reaching a critical point, with people waiting to hear if the Irish Republican Army will disband and disarm its operation.
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The real possibility of an end to the IRA has been on the agenda at talks between members of Northern Ireland&#39;s major political parties.
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In a report to be released today, a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace calls for a 50 percent reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq within three years and a total withdrawal and handover of security to the Iraqi military in five years.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime, as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons and does not commit crimes.