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Cops, British Army guided Belfast lawyer's killing
British police and army agents planted inside Northern Ireland's major Protestant gang played a pivotal role in assassinating a Belfast attorney, a ...
Belfast leaders decry petrol-bomb attack on police
Leaders from across Northern Ireland appealed Tuesday for a week of angry, illegal Protestant street protests to end after a gang surrounded a ...
Clinton: Northern Ireland peace requires vigilance
Extremists still scheming to spoil Northern Ireland's fragile peace can be beaten through a commitment to political sacrifice, compromise and ...
US works with Russia on Syria, but wants Assad out
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the United States and Russia are committed to trying again to get President Bashar Assad's ...
Protestant militants target Northern Ireland party
Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most compromise-minded ...
Mob storms Belfast City Hall over UK flag vote
A Protestant mob stormed into the grounds of Belfast City Hall and clashed with police Monday night after the council voted to remove the British flag ...
McDowell ends a long drought at Sherwood
Graeme McDowell loves nothing better than to close out a long year with a win, and there's no better place for him to do that than Sherwood Country ...
New IRA faction claims Northern Ireland killing
A new Irish Republican Army faction in Northern Ireland claimed responsibility Monday for its first killing and defended the bloodshed as a necessary ...
Thousands mourn NIreland prison guard slain by IRA
Thousands of mourners lined the main street of a central Northern Ireland town Tuesday to bid farewell to a prison officer slain by Irish Republican ...
3 IRA suspects arrested over prison guard killing
Northern Ireland police arrested three suspected Irish Republican Army militants Friday on suspicion of killing an off-duty prison officer, a rare ...
Sinn Fein official charged with IRA membership
An official in the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party was arraigned Friday on Irish Republican Army charges in a case that highlights a murder pivotal ...
Northern Ireland prison guard slain in gun ambush
Suspected IRA die-hards killed a Northern Ireland prison officer Thursday in a gun ambush as he drove to work, the first killing of a prison guard in ...
Londonderry unveils city of culture program
The Northern Ireland city of Londonderry has announced a program of arts events ranging from punk to painting to celebrate its role as the U.K.
Protests as Ireland's 1st abortion clinic opens
The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic ...
Belfast judge: Gay, unmarried couples can adopt
Unmarried and same-sex couples in Northern Ireland should be allowed to adopt children, a Belfast judge ruled Thursday, rejecting a 1987 adoption law ...
Belfast to open Ireland's 1st abortion clinic
A family planning charity plans to open the first abortion clinic in Ireland, challenging decades of legal confusion over the extremely limited access ...
Protestants in Northern Ireland march peacefully
Thousands of Protestants marched peacefully through the heart of Northern Ireland's capital Saturday amid a heavy security presence. It was one of ...
Q&A: Why marches trigger Northern Ireland strife
Belfast is seeing one of its biggest Protestant parades in years Saturday, with thousands participating amid fears that it will degenerate into street ...
Jordan pulls 3 squad members out of Paralympics
Jordan pulled three squad members accused of sexual assault in Northern Ireland out of the 2012 London Paralympics on Thursday, sports officials in ...
3 Jordanian Paralympic squad members out on bail
Two Jordanian Paralympic power-lifters and a trainer were granted bail Wednesday after being accused of sexual assault in Northern Ireland. The three ...
3 men linked to Jordan's Paralympic squad arrested
Three men linked to Jordan's Paralympic team were arrested and charged in Northern Ireland following allegations of sexual assault, British media ...
Teens who lost kin to terror unite at Mass. camp
On a windowsill at a Massachusetts boarding school, a white candle burned in memory of a man who died half a world away in Argentina
20 officers hurt, 10 IRA gunshots in Belfast riots
Northern Ireland police say 20 officers have been wounded in overnight Belfast riots that followed a token Protestant parade past a militant Catholic ...
Belfast dog Lennox put to sleep after 2-year fight
A pug-nosed black Belfast dog named Lennox, who inspired a two-year legal fight and animal-rights protests on both sides of the Atlantic, was put to ...
N. Ireland tensions rise over Bloody Sunday probe
Divisions flared in Northern Ireland's cross-community government Friday over police plans to open a criminal investigation into Bloody Sunday, a ...