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Belfast, May 2 (EFE) .- (Camera: Javier Aja) The creation of Northern Ireland 100 years ago raised an outer wall with the neighboring Republic of Ireland and an inner wall, separating within the British province the two historically opposed groups, the Unionist-Protestant and the Nationalist-Catholic.FOOTAGE OF BELFAST STREETS AND SEPARATION LINES. SOUNDBITES BY JJ MAGEE, COUNCILOR IN BELFAST OF THE SINN FÉIN PARTY
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with residents of Blendecques, a town in France's northern region of Pas-de-Calais, as the nearby river Canche burst its banks again in a region already affected by several episodes of flooding. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at Northern Ireland's Assembly in Belfast on the second day of his two-day visit to the UK territory, which comes after Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill made history by becoming its first nationalist leader. O'Neill, a pro-Irish unity politician, has predicted that Northern Ireland will hold a vote on unification with Ireland within the next decade. However, Sunak's government said earlier this week that Northern Ireland's place within the UK appears "secure for decades". IMAGES
Public sector workers in Northern Ireland rally in Belfast as tens of thousands of employees go on mass strike, with no end in sight to a protracted political crisis that has left the UK province without a devolved government for almost two years. IMAGES
Victims' families, survivors and dignitaries gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the Omagh bombing, the deadliest attack in the period of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland known as the "Troubles". On 15 August, 1998, a massive car bomb planted by dissident republicans tore through Omagh's busy town centre killing 29 people and injuring 220. IMAGES
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