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  • Green Party and FF negotiators reach deal

    22:30 Green Party negotiators this evening agreed to join a Fianna Fáil-led coalition. After ten days of intense negotiations, a draft programme for government was agreed at around 8.30pm this evening. The proposals are due to be brought to the Fianna Fail Parliamentary Party tomorrow at 3 pm while the Green Party will convene a special delegate conference at the same time.

  • Palestinian government on brink of collapse

    22:54 Hamas gunmen stormed a security headquarters of the rival Fatah faction in Gaza today. As fierce fighting, including a shootout at a hospital, claimed at least eight lives and moved Palestinians to the brink of civil war, Fatah commanders described the attack on their HQ as a "coup". 

  • Torrential rain causes chaos in North

    18:29 Torrential rain caused massive flooding across Northern Ireland today as days of Mediterranean style weather ended in thunder storms causing traffic chaos.

  • Peace force for Darfur agreed

    17:31 Sudan has agreed to allow a combined United Nations and African Union (AU) peacekeeping into its troubled Darfur region, a senior AU official said today.

  • Woolmer died of natural causes, toxicology test show

    16:23 Former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes, and not of murder as initially suspected, Jamaican police have announced.
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