N Ireland peace plan threatened
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Warning that he would not be &quot;bluffed,&quot; Protestant leader Ian Paisley said Saturday the latest attempt to achieve peace in Northern Ireland was doomed unless the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) took immediate and verifiable steps to disarm.
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The British and Irish prime ministers unveiled a sweeping new Northern Ireland peace plan Wednesday that offered solutions to issues &#151; particularly Irish Republican Army disarmament &#151; that have bedeviled negotiations for a decade.
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BELFAST/LONDON  - Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a  lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hinged Tuesday  on whether IRA guerrillas would allow pictures to be taken of  their weapons being destroyed.
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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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The Irish Republican Army could disarm in full by Christmas if its political wing and Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant party agree on the latest proposal to revive power-sharing, diplomatic sources revealed.
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Police could pursue suspects across the Irish border under plans being proposed by the DUP.
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Tony Blair is preparing to urge unionists and republicans to agree to a deal that would transform Northern Ireland&#39;s deadlocked peace process.
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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 unveil their blueprint for a lasting political settlement.
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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process has been damaged by a massive bank heist last month in Belfast attributed to the Catholic paramilitary Irish Republican Army, the minister for the province said.
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A prominent member of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said that he has been warned his life is in danger from opponents of his party's stance on policing in Northern Ireland.
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The leader of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland's main Catholic party and the political ally of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), said Sunday he believed his Protestant rivals were ready to agree to a peace deal.
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DUP leader Ian Paisley is asked to stay away from a memorial service for the victims of an IRA bombing.
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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.
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Inflexible demands from the Democratic Unionist party for verifiable photographic evidence of IRA arms decommissioning may scupper any deal to win a final agreement on power sharing, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has warned.
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LONDON -- Northern Ireland's rival political parties locked horns yesterday over the issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army guerrillas amid frantic efforts to agree to a final peace settlement for the British-run province.
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The two governments are preparing to put their proposals aimed at breaking the political stalemate in Northern Ireland to the DUP and Sinn Fein.
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BELFAST - A new peace deal which would see Northern Ireland&#39;s home rule government restored and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) disarm could be struck soon, Britain&#39;s chief minister in the province said on Monday.