Belfast, Northern Ireland News

Six young people who drifted out onto Belfast Lough on a makeshift polystyrene raft are "very lucky to be alive", the coastguard has said.

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The break-in at the Castlereagh police base in east Belfast was a major embarrassment for police and put the developing peace process in Northern Ireland under severe pressure at the time.

A file photo dated June 18, 2009. An Ulster Volunteer Force Flag flies beside a UVF mural in the Loyalist Mount Vernon area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Two Protestant-based paramilitary groups that killed almost 1,000 people during three decades of violence announced Saturday June, 27, 2009, that they have decommissioned their weapons.

A major anti-racism rally is being held in Belfast on Thursday in the wake of recent attacks on migrant workers.

A man's body has been recovered from the river Lagan in the outskirts of Belfast.

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NOT ONLY were nine people killed in yesterday's Shankill Road bombing; it has all but guaranteed that more will die in retaliation.

Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament - and pledged that their decades of slaughtering Catholic civilians were over for good.

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Up to 100 members of Romania's Roma community who fled their homes in Belfast after attacks and intimidation have begun returning to Romania - and an uncertain future.

MORE than 100 Romanian Gypsies who suffered racist attacks and intimidation in Belfast are being flown back home at taxpayer expense, the Northern Ireland government said Tuesday.

Northern Ireland's police chief warned Thursday that recent attacks on Romanian immigrants that forced 20 families to flee their homes are damaging the region's economy and reputation.

More than 100 Romanians were sheltering in a church hall today after fleeing their homes in Belfast because of racist attacks.

More than 100 Romanians who have been driven out of their homes in Belfast have been offered temporary housing by the Northern Ireland Executive.

Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the alleged attacks last week on Romanians in Belfast, Northern Ireland, police said.

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The Romanian families force to flee their Belfast homes because of racist attacks want to go home, it was revealed today.

More than 100 Romanians were moved to emergency accommodation in Belfast last night after a racist gang attacked homes in the university area of the city.

Sir Hugh Orde has defended the PSNI's response to racist violence after the home of another Romanian family was attacked on Wednesday night.