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The Democratic Unionist Party refused to nominate ministers to the Stormont Executive - ending the last hope that a power-sharing deal would be struck before a midnight deadline tonight

Belfast (AFP) - Northern Ireland on Thursday appeared headed for a second election this year after the leader of the pro-UK Democratic Unionist Party said his grouping had not changed its position on contentious post-Brexit trade rules.

The Taoiseach was in Belfast for a series of meetings with party leaders.

Nine-strong team led by close Biden ally will visit Brussels, Dublin and London in significant intervention on division over NI protocol

Sudan announced the launch of the second round of indirect talks on the Sudanese crisis, at the invitation of the Tripartite Mechanism, at the headquarters of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) in Khartoum. The meetings brought together leaders of the Alliance of Forces for the…

Letters: The party’s opposition to the protocol does not give it the right to block the formation of a new power-sharing executive, writes Clem McCartney. Plus letters from Dave Hepworth, Tom Cannon and Sally Churchill

The Northern Ireland Assembly has begun to sit for the first time since the May 5 election

In today’s newsletter: two years after Brexit, Sinn Féin’s rise has the Northern Ireland protocol is back in the news – the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll tells Nimo Omer why

Britain’s foreign secretary has warned the European Union that the U.K. will have “no choice but to act” to revoke parts of a Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland if the EU doesn't show flexibility