Irish PM defeats no-confidence vote over finances
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Ireland&#39;s parliament backed Prime  Minister Bertie Ahern on Wednesday after the main opposition  party called a vote of confidence over his recent testimony at  an anti-corruption tribunal.
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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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Republicans will reject proposals to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland if they fall short of the Good Friday Agreement, the British and Irish Governments were warned.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Friday over an unpopular budget which he describes as a bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order.
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A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who has come under intense pressure to quit after admitting he lied to voters, won a confidence motion in parliament on Friday.
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Irish PM Bertie Ahern was the motor of the EU Constitution - but a Yes vote in Ireland is not a done deal.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told an anti-corruption tribunal on Thursday he did nothing wrong in accepting tens of thousands of pounds in the early 1990s when he was finance minister and deputy premier.
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The head of Northern Ireland's main Protestant party withdrew a threat to sever contact with Dublin after an apparent misunderstanding which looked set to completely derail already faltering peace talks.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday. Negotiators have ``not yet achieved a comprehensive agreement,'' Blair said, speaking at the end of a three-day diplomatic push to revive the Good Friday peace accord of 1998
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The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted today that they had failed so far to restore power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 18, 2004 - 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.
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The Somali parliament on Saturday passed a no-confidence motion against the newly-appointed prime minister and his cabinet, according to an informed senior Somali official in Nairobi.
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The Bulgarian National Assembly on Friday rejected a non-confidence bill against the coalition government led by Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev.Comment
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CANADIAN Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday headed off a no-confidence vote that could have brought down his Government, but immediately sailed into a new row over a stricken submarine.
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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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'Unfit to spend taxpayers' money' Ireland's Public Accounts Committee's report on the Media Lab Europe collapse proves the country's government is 'unfit' to spend taxpayers' money, an Opposition spokesman claims.â¦