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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
US President Joe Biden meets with UK Prime Minister Rish Sunak during his short visit to Northern Ireland. His visit marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a US-brokered peace agreement ending the conflict between pro-Irish and pro-British militants in April 1998. IMAGES
Chris Heaton-Harris, the UK's Northern Ireland minister, insists he is "under a legal duty to call an election within 12 weeks." The announcement comes as a deadline to resume devolved government at the Stormont assembly passed at midnight, after UK and regional lawmakers failed to resolve a standoff over post-Brexit trade rules. IMAGES
Referring to the Nothern Ireland protocol, vice-president of European Commission Maros Sefcovic says that the UK "opening the door to unilaterally changing an international agreement is a breach of international law". SOUNDBITE
At a press conference held at Downing Street after a meeting with police chiefs, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lays out plans to better target known far-right agitators, including wider deployment of facial recognition technology and criminal behavior orders to restrict their movement. He also warns social media commpanies that they must uphold laws around spreading incendiary misinformation, following unrest blamed on the sharing of unverified details about the Southport knife attack. "It's also a crime and it's happening on your premises," Starmer said of the proliferation of misinformation "whipped up online", which helped spark two nights of violence in English towns and cities after Monday's stabbings. SOUNDBITE
New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sits down with Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont in Belfast. Starmer is completing a whistlestop tour of the UK, just after his centre-left Labour party won last week's general election. IMAGES
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