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Sinn Fein leader hails ‘new era’ as early results point to historic N. Ireland parliament win

May 9, 2022admin

The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win. With almost all votes counted from Thursday’s local U.K. election, Sinn Fein secured 27 of […]

Ex-Belarus leader Stanislav Shushkevich, who helped dissolve USSR, dies at 87

May 5, 2022admin

The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, has died aged 87, his wife told AFP. Shushkevich, who later became a critic of Belarus‘s strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko, died of complications from coronavirus, his wife Irina said […]