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The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia sign a historic preliminary agreement to end a 27-year bilateral row by renaming the small Balkan nation as 'The Republic of North Macedonia'. IMAGES
European shares edged lower ahead of fresh talks between Greece and its creditors. As Ivor Bennett reports, a standoff over debt relief is fuelling market scepticism that a deal can be reached by the end of the month.
European shares edged lower ahead of fresh talks between Greece and its creditors. As Ivor Bennett reports, a standoff over debt relief is fuelling market scepticism that a deal can be reached by the end of the month.
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE