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Northern Ireland Parties Plan To Restore Power-Sharing After 3-Year Hiatus

Northern Ireland is heading for a return to the power-sharing agreement, in a deal brokered by the governments of Britain and Ireland.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald's party has agreed to a new power-sharing deal with the Democratic Unionist Party. McDonald spoke about the agreement Friday, flanked by deputy leader Michelle O'Neill, right.

Northern Ireland will return to the power-sharing agreement that collapsed three years ago, as its two major parties – the nationalist Sinn Fein and the pro-U.K. Democratic Unionist Party – agreed Friday to a

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