Irish leader urges IRA to disband
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DUBLIN -- Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged Irish Republican Army commanders yesterday to meet what he acknowledged was ''a heavy burden&quot;: disarming and disbanding their organization in support of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
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BELFAST -- Northern Ireland's largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, said yesterday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged his stunned supporters on Thursday to accept the dissolution of their party and the political banishment of its leaders which threaten more turmoil.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered heads of his Mehdi Army militia to leave Iraq and asked the government to arrest "outlaws" under a U.S.- backed crackdown, Iraq's president said on Thursday.
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Northern Ireland's police chief blamed  the IRA on Friday for a massive bank raid in Belfast, an  accusation that undermines efforts to hand back running of the  British province to its divided Catholics and Protestants.
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Sinn FÃ©in has accused DUP leader Ian Paisley of effectively holding a gun to the heads of the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister on the issue of photographic proof of IRA decommissioning.
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The DUP is seeking to humiliate the IRA over its demand for visible decommissioning, Sinn Fein's chairman has said.
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Inflexible demands from the Democratic Unionist party for verifiable photographic evidence of IRA arms decommissioning may scupper any deal to win a final agreement on power sharing, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has warned.
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged Irish Republican Army commanders on Sunday to meet what he acknowledged was "a heavy burden": disarming and disbanding their organization in support of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
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The Sinn FÃ©in leader, Gerry Adams, has appealed for direct talks with the DUP leader, the Reverend Ian Paisley. Mr Adams was speaking at a news conference following yesterday&#39;s assessments given by the Taoiseach
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The DUP leader meets the prime minister to insist that photographic evidence of IRA disarmament is essential.
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An Irish political party leader is to urge British Prime Minister Tony Blair to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from republican areas of Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland's police chief blamed the IRA on Friday for a massive bank raid in Belfast, an accusation that undermines efforts to hand back running of the British province to its divided Catholics and Protestants.
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Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) political ally Sinn Fein, signaled on Sunday that the guerrilla group was ready to give up its arms, but only if a new Northern Ireland peace deal can be struck.
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The Independent Monitoring Commission says the IRA is continuing to dismantle its structures.
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Ireland's major opposition party formally called Wednesday for the ouster of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern over his admission in testimony that he received more than $140,000 in secret cash payments from businessmen in the 1990s.
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Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have gone to the IRA in a bid to resolve the issue of disarmament, they have announced.