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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
Spain's King Felipe VI meets with the country's party leaders in a bid to break an impasse over the formation of a new government following inconclusive elections last month. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has headed a caretaker government with reduced powers since a July 23 general election produced a hung parliament, in which a ruling majority cannot easily be formed. While his Socialist party finished second behind the conservative Popular Party (PP), it is better positioned as it has more potential partners. IMAGES
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets Wednesday with the leader of the Socialist Party Pedro Sanchez for discussions on forming a new government after repeat legislative elections two weeks ago returned the conservative Popular Party as the main party in parliament but without an absolute majority. IMAGES
Spanish voters hope to break the political deadlock that resulted after an election last December failed to give any one party a majority in Parliament. Diane Hodges reports.
Chilean president Gabriel Boric welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. IMAGES
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at Planalto palace in Brasilia. IMAGES
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