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Northern Ireland traders in the dark over post-Brexit GB trade

Northern Ireland retailers say they're not ready for new trading arrangements with Britain from January 1 as they've not been given the technical information needed.

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No-deal Brexit 'bonanza' for organised crime, says N Ireland minister

UK MPs have heard that Brexit risks negative impacts on crime and trade in Northern Ireland when the transition period expires at the end of the year.

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UK stokes tensions with EU and US over contentious Brexit bill

Boris Johnson's government has vowed to reinstate parts of its international law-breaking Internal Market Bill, despite heavy defeats in the House of Lords on Monday.

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Mateus Webba Da Silva: the Angolan expert breaking ground in DNA research

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Northern Ireland introduces four-week 'circuit-breaker' lockdown

Northern Ireland is the first region of the UK to re-introduce strict measures similar to those imposed close to the first peak of the pandemic in March.

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'No further prosecutions' over Bloody Sunday shootings, officials say

Prosecutors confirm just one former British soldier will go on trial on suspicion of murder in connection to the 1972 shootings in which 13 people died

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Brexit: Johnson compromises with MPs to head off revolt over bill

The move may cut little ice with the EU, which wants the UK to ditch the plan to override the Brexit divorce deal, breaking international law.

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Biden to UK: No US trade deal if Irish peace deal is Brexit 'casualty'

The US presidential candidate's warning comes amid international dismay at the UK government's plan to overrule parts of the legally-binding EU divorce deal.

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EU says new Brexit bill puts Northern Ireland peace deal at risk

The UK has until the end of the month to withdraw the controversial measures from its draft bill, the Commission said.

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How does Boris Johnson's new Brexit bill violate international law?

Legal experts say a bill proposed by the UK is designed to override key portions of a deal on Northern Ireland signed less than a year ago

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'How can UK be trusted?': ex-PM May slams Brexit plan to break treaty

The former prime minister's intervention came as the UK government admitted a new bill on post-Brexit Northern Ireland arrangements contravene international law.

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London 'must not play with peace in Ireland' during Brexit trade talks

"The last thing we want to see is somehow the British government trying to play with peace in Ireland as some sort of negotiating gambit towards fishing rights or state aid," Irish lawmaker Neale Richmond told Euronews.

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Brexit bureaucracy? 'Green card' required for UK drivers in Ireland

Plans to require drivers to carry an insurance ‘green card’ when crossing the Irish border are not going down well in Northern Ireland.

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Man arrested in connection with Lyra McKee murder in Northern Ireland

The so-called New IRA paramilitary group said it was involved in the 29 year-old journalist's killing as she was caught in the cross fire.

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Brexit: UK backtracks on pledge to avoid N. Ireland customs checks

Before he became prime minister, Boris Johnson had promised businesses in Northern Ireland they would face "no forms, no checks, no barriers."

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Lyra Mckee: Police appeal for more information one year after murder

Journalist Lyra McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing rioting in the Creggan estate, Londonderry on April 18, 2019.

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One island, two coronavirus strategies. Which one is right?

The island of Ireland is a divided one – including when it comes to tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

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St. Patrick's Day and social distancing: how are people celebrating?

St. Patrick's Day and social distancing: how are people celebrating?

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Euroviews. In Brexit Britain, Northern Ireland must again turn to the US to uphold our rights ǀ View

In the face of a British government abdicating its responsibilities to the Northern Ireland peace accord, the people of Northern Ireland are turning once again to the US.

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First same-sex couple ties the knot in Northern Ireland

Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards made history today as they were the first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland.