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Anger as Israel assassinates Hamas leader Israel's assassination of the Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi on Saturday 17 April by means of a missile attack against his car in Gaza City shows the impunity enjoyed by the regime leaded by Ariel Sharon when it comes to its actions against Palestinian civilians and activists. Delivering a better economy for all - Adams addresses Dublin Chamber of Commerce 
A packed Burlington Hotel conference room greeted Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams yesterday morning as he spoke at a Dublin Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The Chamber had originally planned using another hotel, but was such the demand they booked a bigger venue. Photo: Gerry Adams 22 April 2004 Israel's nuclear whistle-blower to be freed For 18 years Mordachai Vanunu has been imprisoned by the state of Israel. His crime: telling the world the truth about his government's secret nuclear weapons programme. The date set for his release, 21 April, is only five months short of his full sentence. Over the years, the case of Mordechai Vanunu has come to symbolise the intractable problem of state secrecy that continues to stymie all efforts towards world nuclear disarmament. This is why Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 1987. British political control is the problem with policing 
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly was in New York on Wednesday to address the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) on the issue of policing in the North of Ireland. His address comes on the heels of the public debate on policing in the US sparked by the Sinn Féin advertisement placed in the New York Times during the St Patrick's Day celebrations, and soon after an address to the same Committee by PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde. Zapatero to pull Spanish troops from Iraq On Sunday 18 April, the newly inaugurated Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, announced his decision to pull Spain's 1,400-plus troops from Iraq. Spain's Iraq contingent is based near Najaf, where an uprising led by muslim cleric al-Sadr began two weeks ago. It is part of a Polish-led multinational brigade based in southern Iraq. 
By Mark Guilfoyle - It was a wonderfully sunny spring day in Covington, Kentucky on 15 March 2003, when Gerry Kelly spoke at the Northern Kentucky Police Memorial. A black marble slab, it is inscribed with the names of dozens of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty protecting the citizens of Northern Kentucky over the years. There are thousands of similar police memorials in communities all across the United States. In America, police officers are universally regarded as heroes and public servants. Photo: Gerry Kelly at the Northern Kentucky Police Memorial in 2003 Hopeful developments in Basque Country 
While most Sinn Féin speakers had to battle against the unpredictable April weather to give their Easter speeches last week, Alex Maskey's Easter Sunday had a distinctly warmer, international flavour to it. Maskey was in the Basque Country, attending a day-long conference on conflict resolution and the need for multi-party talks. Photo: Alex Maskey in the Basque Country Discriminatory electoral law must be repealed 
Sinn Féin Vice President Pat Doherty MP this week presented the Westminster 'Northern Ireland' Affairs Committee with a comprehensive document in which the systematic disenfranchisement of as many as 18% of eligible voters in the Six Counties, the majority of them from nationalist areas, is exposed. Photo: Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty Wexford Hospital Petition delivered to Dáil 
A petition to upgrade Wexford General Hospital and to protect the hospital from Government intentions to centralise acute hospital services under the Hanly Report was delivered to Leinster House on Wednesday by Wexford Sinn Féin elected representatives and local election candidates. 
West Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Fra McCann had his living room window broken after a number of ballbearings were fired at the front of his Lower Falls home. Photo: Fra McCann surveys the damage Third attempt to expel killer Brits Jean McBride, whose son Peter was shot dead by Scots Guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher in 1992, waited anxiously on Tuesday 20 April for the outcome of her third legal challenge to have the two killers thrown out of the British Army. Anti-collusion picketers target police conference 
Members of An Fhírinne, took their campaign to expose the British Government's role in assisting unionist death squads to assassinate Irish nationalists and republicans to the Ramada Hotel on the outskirts of South Belfast on Monday 19 April. Photo: Councillor Michael Ferguson and Michael Power, whose son was gunned down by the UDA, are confronted by a PSNI member at the Ramada Hotel in Belfast 
Ógra Shinn Féin held a protest outside Omagh Courthouse on Tuesday 20 April, during the ongoing trial of local Ógra member Daniel Turnbull. Worrying rise in homophobic attacks A spokesperson for the Rainbow Project - which provides health services for the gay community - has expressed concern that recent attacks on gay men in Derry City are causing anxiety. Domestic violence centre should not be in barracks Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin, commenting on the opening of a Domestic Violence Centre at Strand Road PSNI Barracks, said that while this is a growing problem in society and action has to be taken to address it: "I do not believe that a centre located inside a PSNI Barracks staffed entirely by PSNI personnel is the solution." 
Sinn Féin Derry City Councillor Barney O'Hagan has renewed the party's call for the British Government to officially recognise Derry as the name of the city and to drop the prefix London from its name. Photo: Sinn Féin Derry City Councillor Barney O'Hagan Sectarian graffiti a typical Kilkeel welcome 
Sinn Féin's spokesperon on Human Rights, Caitríona Ruane MLA, has described the loyalist graffiti daubed on walls in Kilkeel last Thursday as sinister and threatening. Photo: Sectarian graffiti in Kilkeel Sinn Féin North Antrim Assembly member Philip McGuigan says loyalists are behind a campaign to destroy car tyres and cause accidents by spreading nails on the roads leading into the nationalist village of Dunloy. Loyalist no 'cross-community' worker Sinn Féin in Derry has dismissed claims by the mouthpiece of the UDA, the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), that a well-known loyalist spotted in the Bogside area is a 'cross community worker'. Hugh Orde tackled over Rosemount spy post 
The Rosemount Anti-Watchtower Group in Derry City has written to the city council asking it to covene a meeting between PSNI boss Hugh Orde and the group to discuss the removal of the watchtower from Rosemount PSNI Barracks near Creggan. Photo: PSNI Chief Hugh Orde Murdered Belfast teen remembered Over 1,000 people attended a vigil in memory of the West Belfast teenager Megan McAlorum last Thursday 15 April. Irish film fund just a first step Sinn Féin Culture spokesperson, East Derry MLA Francie Brolly, has welcomed the announcement that the British Government has made £12 million available to support Irish language film and television production over the next three years. Brolly added, however, that this must signal greater progress in a number of key areas, including the availability of TG4 throughout the Six Counties. Easter 2004 (Late commemoration reports) 
A roundup of Easter Commemoration reports from around the country Photo: Around 2,000 people attended the Drumboe commemoration in Donegal on Easter Sunday Kerry remembers Tan War Volunteer A cross was erected at Liscahane Bridge on Easter Monday in remembrance of Fian Danny Driscoll, who at 16 years of age was murdered by the Black and Tans on 9 April 1921. |
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