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CNN
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Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties have hailed a deal to form a power-sharing government as a "new era of politics" to end three decades of sectarian conflict in the British province.
Monday's breakthrough followed the first face-..
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USA Today
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Britain said Sunday it intends to try to hand power immediately to a new Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland — but is open to the Protestant side's demand for an extension to May.
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said Saturda..
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USA Today
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Irene Martin and Neil Stone have lived worlds apart, though not far from each other, through decades of Protestant vs. Catholic strife.
Martin, a 69-year-old retiree, lives in a Protestant working-class area of northwest Belfast. Stone, 46, is from the..
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MSNBC
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Anti-EU activists optimistic
And anti-EU activists expressed growing confidence they would triumph when official results are declared Friday afternoon.
"People felt a convincing case for the treaty had not been made, and they felt hectored and bulli..
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CNN
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Iraq's warring factions have reached an agreement aimed at boosting peace following talks with politicians from Northern Ireland and South Africa, according to a Northern Irish lawmaker. Northern Irish Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and ex-parami..
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BBC News
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The British army's operation in Northern Ireland will come to an end at midnight on Tuesday after 38 years.
Operation Banner - the Army's support role for the police - has been its longest continuous campaign, with more than 300,000 personnel taking pa..
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BBC News
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An internal British army document examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it failed to defeat the IRA.
The admission is contained in a discussion document released by the Ministry of Defence after a re..
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BBC News
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Voters in the Republic of Ireland are set to head to the polls with Bertie Ahern seeking to win a third term as Taoiseach, or prime minister.
Mr Ahern has been praised for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
The Taoiseach has led a coali..
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MSNBC
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Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley and IRA veteran Martin McGuinness formed a long-unthinkable alliance Tuesday as Northern Ireland power-sharing went from dream to reality — and all sides expressed hope that bloodshed over this British territory would ne..
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CNN
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Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties joined together Tuesday to form a power-sharing government, marking a "new era of politics" and an end to three decades of sectarian conflict in the British province.
Protestant Democratic Unioni..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams today agreed a date for the return of power sharing in Northern Ireland during historic talks at Stormont.
Following their first ever face-to-face discussions, the leaders of the Democratic Unionist party and Sinn F�in ann..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A despondent British government fears Tony Blair's planned Northern Ireland legacy is slipping away amid signs that Ian Paisley is facing a party revolt over his plans to form a power sharing executive with Sinn Féin on Monday.
Mr Blair and his Northe..
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Yahoo News
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Northern Ireland voted on Wednesday in an election that could allow the return of a government shared between Protestants and Catholics and help cement a lasting political settlement after decades of conflict.
Britain and Ireland hope the assembly elec..
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New York Times
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Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English fr..
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BBC News
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Scientists in the Republic of Ireland have found traces of cocaine on all the banknotes they tested...
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Independent
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Devon's Buckfast Abbey is known as a place of serenity, where its community of Benedictine monks can meditate in silence and tranquility in an atmosphere of spiritual contemplation...
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