The Latest Breaking News from Democratic Unionist party

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak headed to Northern Ireland for talks with the region’s parties, as expectation mounts that Britain and the E.U. will reach a deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements in the coming days.

Speculation that a long-standing dispute between Britain and the European Union over the Northern Ireland protocol is close to being resolved is premature, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Democratic Unionist Party has labelled the move a ‘stunt’ by Sinn Fein.

The Taoiseach was in Belfast for a series of meetings with party leaders.

Nine-strong team led by close Biden ally will visit Brussels, Dublin and London in significant intervention on division over NI protocol

Sudan announced the launch of the second round of indirect talks on the Sudanese crisis, at the invitation of the Tripartite Mechanism, at the headquarters of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) in Khartoum. The meetings brought together leaders of the Alliance of Forces for the…

Letters: The party’s opposition to the protocol does not give it the right to block the formation of a new power-sharing executive, writes Clem McCartney. Plus letters from Dave Hepworth, Tom Cannon and Sally Churchill

The Northern Ireland Assembly has begun to sit for the first time since the May 5 election

In today’s newsletter: two years after Brexit, Sinn Féin’s rise has the Northern Ireland protocol is back in the news – the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll tells Nimo Omer why