Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Northern Ireland peace deal

Northern Ireland peace deal stories: 5 news summaries

(AP) - Irish nationalist gangs hurled gasoline bombs at police today after three alleged IRA dissidents were arrested on suspicion of killing two British soldiers, the AP reports. Police operating in armored cars and flame-retardant suits said none of their officers was injured during the rising mob violence in the Irish Catholic... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • arrest • riots • Northern Ireland peace deal • Irish Republican Army

 Policeman's Funeral 
 Unites Northern Ireland  

Killing by IRA splinter group provokes defiant display in favor of peace

Mar 14, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants united yesterday to mourn a policeman killed by an IRA splinter group, the New York Times reports. In what some mourners described as the most improbable gathering of old enemies in modern Irish history, IRA veterans stood side by side with loyalists and security chiefs... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • British terror attacks • Ulster • IRA • Real IRA • Northern Ireland peace deal • Continuity IRA

analysis

New Mideast Envoy Is
Old Hand at Peacemaking

Israel-Palestine negotiations just 'another assignment' for Mitchell

Jan 24, 09 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - As the Obama administration’s new Middle East envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell has  the toughest of diplomatic tasks on his hands: negotiating peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. But “if anyone can succeed in this difficult endeavor," it's Mitchell, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Mitchell... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Israel • Northern Ireland • Palestine • George Mitchell • Mideast envoy • negotiations • Arab Israeli conflict • Northern Ireland peace deal

Chelsea Thesis May Clarify Hillary's Role
in Irish Peace

But Clintons won't release Stanford doc

Apr 6, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - While Hillary Clinton stands accused of exaggerating her part in the 1998 Irish peace process, the answer might lie in an unlikely 150-page document—Chelsea Clinton's senior thesis from Stanford. Only problem? No one seems to know where it's gone, Newsweek reports, and a Clinton spokesman warns it was "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hillary Clinton • Stanford • Northern Ireland • Sinn Fein • Bill Clinton • Gerry Adams • Ireland • Chelsea Clinton • thesis • Northern Ireland peace deal

Clinton, Obama Both
Inflate Senate Records

From laws to peace deals, candidates' roles appear to grow in hindsight

Mar 24, 08 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama didn’t take part in meetings on immigration legislation in 2006, recalls Arlen Specter, one of the handful of senators who did, but Specter just shrugs when the Illinois Democrat says he did. “It’s not an unusual matter for senators to take a little extra credit,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Senate • Kosovo • Arlen Specter • experience • Orrin Hatch • Chris Dodd • SCHIP • Northern Ireland peace deal

5 Stories


from our news partners

Associated PressAssociated Press