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Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster arrives as the counting continues at the Titanic exhibition centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the 2019 general election, Friday Dec. 13, 2019. The first handful of results to be declared in Britain's election are showing a surge in support for to the Conservatives in northern England seats where Labour has long been dominant. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)

After 3 years, N Ireland parties agree return to government

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster arrives as the counting continues at the Titanic exhibition centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the 2019 general election, Friday Dec. 13, 2019. The first handful of results to be declared in Britain's election are showing a surge in support for to the Conservatives in northern England seats where Labour has long been dominant. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)

UK, Ireland push for resumption of suspended N Ireland govt

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers Hunter College's commencement address in New York. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been appointed Chancellor at Queen's University in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, Thursday Jan. 2, 2020, to serve a five-year term. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, FILE) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton gets role at Queen’s University in Belfast

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 file photo showing a Loyalist mural painted on a wall in east Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rory Finnis was only 21 years old when he was killed in 1991 by the Irish Republican Army. Accused of “informing” the Northern Ireland government of the paramilitary group’s activities, the boy from Londonderry was shot in the head. His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed. Details of Finnis’ death, along with many others, have been revealed in archives newly opened by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. The files concern the violent period known as “The Troubles”, which centred on whether Northern Ireland would be part of the United Kingdom, as it is today, or join the Republic of Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Archives reveal details of alleged informers killed by IRA

By NATASHA LIVINGSTONE - Associated Press

An ambulance beeping its horn in support as it passes a union picket line, outside the Belfast Royal Hospital as nurses across Northern Ireland take part in a 12-hour strike over pay, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday Dec. 18, 2019. The 12-hour walkout by nurses and healthcare workers will see them leave patient bedsides, without effecting critical care patients, in a dispute over pay and patient safety. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)

Northern Irish nurses strike over pay, staffing levels

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves after addressing the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Boris Johnson’s win may deliver Brexit but could risk U.K.’s breakup

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Police escort the truck, that was found to contain a large number of dead bodies, as they move it from an industrial estate in Thurrock, south England, Wednesday Oct. 23, 2019. Police in southeastern England said that 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

U.K. media: 39 truck death victims were all from China

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Police escort the truck, that was found to contain a large number of dead bodies, as they move it from an industrial estate in Thurrock, south England, Wednesday Oct. 23, 2019. Police in southeastern England said that 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Latest: UK police get 24 hours to question truck driver

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Police officers attend the scene after a truck, seen in rear, was found to contain a large number of dead bodies, in Thurrock, South England, early Wednesday Oct. 23, 2019. Police in southeastern England said that 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside the truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

The Latest: Truck with 39 dead came to England from Belgium

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Pro-choice activists take part in a photo call in the grounds of Stormont Parliament, Belfast, Monday Oct. 21, 2019. Abortion is set to be decriminalized and same-sex marriage legalized in Northern Ireland as of midnight, bringing its laws in line with the rest of the U.K. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

N Ireland laws on abortion, same-sex marriage, set to change

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 11, 2019 file photo, Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster, center, speaks to journalists after her meeting with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at EU headquarters in Brussels. The Democratic Unionist Party is a small Northern Irish political grouping with an outsized Brexit role. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson most likely needs the 10 votes the party has in Parliament if he is going to have any chance in getting any Brexit deal he negotiates with the European Union over the line. Little wonder then, that the party is being courted intensely by Johnson. As things stand, it’s not clear whether the party will support any deal that emerges.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

The Latest: EU lawmakers might not OK Brexit deal by Oct. 31

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Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters protest across the street from the Houses of Parliament in London, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. A Brexit divorce deal is still possible ahead of Thursday's European Union summit but the British government needs to move ahead with more compromises to seal an agreement in the next few hours, the bloc said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Customs, VAT issues seen holding up Brexit deal

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In this photo dated Monday Oct. 14, 2019 a man walks past an Irish Republican mural depicting scenes of the Battle of the Bogside area of Derry in August 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Brexit ignites fears of renewed violence in Northern Ireland

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Warrenpoint village in the UK, Northern Ireland nestles on the banks of Carlingford Lough with its ferry that connects Northern Ireland, left of photo, with the Republic of Ireland, right, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. The island of Ireland border issue has been the most intractable issue in the Brexit negotiations. The ferry service that plys these calm waters is another sign that the border is all but invisible, but if the U.K. leaves the European Union on Oct. 31 without a Brexit divorce deal, this local boat could find itself plying an international border. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Irish border residents worry about future if no-deal Brexit

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams speaks during a meeting in Dundalk, at the border between Britain's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that is inside Europe, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Irish republicans believe the prospects of reunification of the island of Ireland are stronger than ever in the wake of the U.K.’s recent Brexit proposals, and Gerry Adams said &quot;There is going to be a referendum on Irish unity,” during the public meeting Thursday night. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

U.K. Brexit plans stir talk of Irish unity among activists

By David Keyton - Associated Press

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar grimaces during a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in Stockholm, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

More Brexit questions than answers as Oct. 31 deadline nears

By RAF CASERT and GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the House of Commons, leader of Britain's Labour party Jeremy Corbyn speaks in Parliament in London, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. An unrepentant Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed off cries of “Resign!” and dared the political opposition to try to topple him Wednesday at a raucous session of Parliament, a day after Britain’s highest court ruled he acted illegally in suspending the body ahead of the Brexit deadline. (Jessica Taylor/House of Commons via AP)

The Latest: EU’s Tusk “unconvinced” about UK Brexit proposal

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People queue to enter Manchester Central Convention Centre, where Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson will later deliver the Leaders's speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Britain's ruling Conservative Party is holding their annual party conference. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

The Latest: EU Parliament’s Brexit official cautious on plan

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‘Backstop’ explained: Irish border issue halting Brexit deal

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker listens Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 in Strasbourg, eastern France, as members of the European Parliament discuss the current state of play of the UK's withdrawal from the EU. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

EU’s Juncker: Irish border controls needed in no-deal Brexit

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press