Progress, But No Breakthrough, at N.Irish Talks
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - Northern Ireland's  feuding political leaders reported progress but no breakthrough  on Friday at talks aimed at brokering a deal which would see  the Irish Republican Army (IRA) effectively disband.
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Progress to restore Northern Ireland devolution has been "remarkable but is not yet complete", Tony Blair says.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England, Sept. 18 -- Negotiations among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that a deal might yet be achieved.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England - 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.    Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern had tried for three days to broker an agreement between Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, and the Democratic Unionists, who represent most of the province's British Protestant majority...
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BELFAST -- Ten years after the Irish Republican Army's momentous cease-fire, negotiations resumed yesterday in hope of reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration, an elusive goal of Northern Ireland's hard-fought peace process.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern meet today to try to find a way of breathing new life into the faltering efforts to restore devolution to Northern Ireland.
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British and Irish leaders and political parties worked into late night on Friday to make a deal for restoring the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, but no breakthrough were reported.
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The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister has expressed hopes for an improvement in the political situation in Northern Ireland in the coming weeks.
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DUBLIN/BELFAST  - One week before top-level talks  to salvage a deal for sharing power between Catholics and  Protestants in Northern Ireland, there is still no framework  for accord, the leader of the main Catholic party said  Wednesday.
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The British and Irish Prime Ministers are due to hold talks Wednesday, hopeful of a breakthrough in the protracted deadlock over power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, today told the Commons &quot;immense progress&quot; had been made in the Northern Ireland peace process, despite the current deadlocked attempt to reach an agreement.
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Two of Northern Ireland's church leaders have expressed disappointment that talks aimed at restoring devolved government have ended without a deal.
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Negotiators for 14 D.C. hotels and the hotel employees union, meeting yesterday after a six-day impasse, reported little headway in resolving substantive issues but said there were enough hints of progress to warrant continued talks.
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Northern Ireland's politicians attend a third day of talks aimed at restoring devolved government.
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LONDON -- Three days of talks aimed at breaking a two-year deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process ended yesterday without a deal, but with officials expressing confidence of progress on the key issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army.
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6 November 2004 -- An Iranian negotiator says some problems remain at talks with Britain, France, and Germany on resolving a dispute over Iran&#39;s nuclear program but that he still hopes an understanding can be reached.
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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