Government, Not Guns Is N.Ireland Sticking Point
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland took  another small step in the slow march toward restoring home rule  this weekend with tacit promises from the IRA to end guerrilla  activity once and for all.
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The British and Irish prime ministers say much has been achieved in the Northern Ireland peace process but an accord on restoring the province&#39;s power-sharing government is not yet complete.
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As Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern go into the second day of peace talks with the political parties, paramilitary weapons were central to chances of success.
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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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Unprecedented IRA disarmament is in the balance over a refusal by Ian Paisley&#39;s Democratic Unionists to compromise at the Northern Ireland peace talks.
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A deal taking shape Friday in negotiations on Northern Ireland's future would require the outlawed Irish Republican Army to resume disarmament and issue a new statement that, for the first time, would ...
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Britain is willing to consider alternatives to photographing Irish Republican Army disarmament, so long as the public can see visible evidence of the destruction of IRA weaponry, the Northern Ireland governor said Tuesday.
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A standoff over how the scrapping of IRA arms is proved looks set to dash hopes of a landmark deal in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, when Britain and Ireland plan to
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NORTHERN IRELANDâS political parties have come closer than at any stage in recent history to agreeing terms for a permanent end to disarm the IRA and revive a power-sharing government.
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A major push to seal a political settlement for the turbulent British province of Northern Ireland stalled at the last moment yesterday over demands for photographic evidence of IRA guerillas scrapping their arms.
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The British government says there is no reason why devolution cannot be restored to Northern Ireland.Comment
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The IRA withdraws its plan to put its weapons beyond use over impatience with the British and Irish governments.
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A new peace deal which would see Northern Ireland&#39;s home rule government restored and the IRA disarm could be struck soon. &quot;Fundamental political change is within our grasp.
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The Irish Republican Army has changed fundamentally from the terror organization that fought British rule in Northern Ireland for decades and now poses no security threat, a British minister said on Wednesday.
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According to media reports, the British Government is not going to follow Ireland&#39;s lead an initiate a national smoking ban in public places.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The Irish Republican Army is willing to resume disarming, but will not accept conditions designed to humiliate the outlawed group, Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams said Tuesday as efforts to strike a new Northern Ireland peace
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Politicians faced extra security Monday at the Northern Ireland Assembly as they debated their failure to forge a Catholic-Protestant administration &#151; an argument dramatically interrupted last week by a Protestant extremist with a bag full of nail bombs.