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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
Representatives of Ecuador's government and Indigenous groups sign an agreement to end 18 days of sometimes violent protests against high living costs and fuel prices. IMAGES
Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio signs a gas deal with Congolese oil minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua as Rome seeks to end its dependence on Russia for energy. IMAGES
Greece and France sign a 2.5-billion-euro ($3 billion) warplane deal as part of a burgeoning arms programme to counter Turkish challenges in the eastern Mediterranean. France has strongly backed Greece in a standoff with Turkey over natural gas resources and naval influence in the waters off their respective coasts. The deal will see Greece buying 18 Rafale jets, 12 of them used, made by French firm Dassault to bolster its forces during their regular mid-air skirmishes with Turkish pilots over disputed Aegean airspace. IMAGES
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