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2 killed, 2 seriously wounded in Northern Ireland shooting
July 23, 2025 6:52 pm
The wounded victims were being treated in two hospitals for serious injuries, the ambulance service said.
Northern Ireland: DUP leader Donaldson quits over charges of historical sex offences
March 29, 2024 11:43 pm
Donaldson, 61, is one of the British region's best-known politicians and is Northern Ireland's longest-serving lawmaker in the British parliament, to which he was first elected in 1997.
UK lowers domestic threat level for Northern Ireland to 'substantial' from 'severe'
March 06, 2024 6:14 pm
MI5 had raised the threat level for the region to 'severe' about a year ago, following attacks on police officers and weeks ahead of celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of a peace deal that largely ended three decades of violence.
Northern Ireland gets a govt after two years: Why the long standoff, what has changed now
February 05, 2024 11:42 am
Why is the resolving of the Northern Ireland deadlock important? How has its new First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, created history? We explain
For Joe Biden, an era when treaties are more likely to be broken than brokered
April 11, 2023 1:14 pm
President Joe Biden’s trip to Northern Ireland will mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of violence, but such diplomatic breakthroughs are harder than ever to achieve in today’s fractious world.
UK intelligence agency raises threat level for Northern Ireland to "severe"
March 28, 2023 5:25 pm
The change comes roughly a year after Britain lowered the threat level for the province to "substantial" for the first time in more than a decade.
UK Supreme Court upholds legality of the Northern Ireland Protocol: What is the protocol
February 09, 2023 7:36 am
Under the protocol, Northern Ireland remains in the EU single market, and trade-and-customs inspections of goods coming from Great Britain take place at its ports along the Irish Sea.
UK government's U-turn on Northern Ireland Protocol: The politics of creating crisis and treating catastrophe as 'normal'
July 06, 2022 8:54 am
Upendra Baxi writes: The country's PM, who jointly with the EU created the Protocol, now wishes to undo it by appealing to the fragility of peace in Northern Ireland.
Explained: UK is balking at the Northern Ireland protocol. So, what is that?
December 09, 2021 1:56 pm
Britain said that a Brexit treaty on Northern Ireland, negotiated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and called the Northern Ireland Protocol, could create so many problems that it might have to be abandoned if it cannot be rewritten.
Explained: What is behind the latest unrest in Northern Ireland?
April 11, 2021 12:43 pm
The violence has been largely in Protestant areas in and around Belfast and Northern Ireland’s second city, Londonderry, although the disturbances have spread to Catholic neighbourhoods.
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