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The view from Stormont. Negotiations have continued throughout the week.
Time running out on N.Ireland negotiations

By politics.co.uk staff Negotiations on the final stages of devolution to Northern Ireland continue today, as the deadline set yesterday comes ever closer. Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart, Brian Cowen, emerged from a marathon two day negotiating session with a Friday deadline for the regions two main parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, to… Read more »

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Brown vows Taliban defeat

By Alex Stevenson Gordon Brown pledged to defeat the Taliban on the battlefield and in people’s hearts and minds in his opening remarks to the London Afghanistan conference. The prime minister directly addressed the leaders of the Taliban, whose leadership of the insurgency in Afghanistan has thwarted coalition forces since the country was invaded in… Read more »