President Biden spoke at Ulster University in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, commemorating twenty-five years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
From the late 1960s through the late '90s, over 300 police officers were killed during the violence that unfolded in Northern Ireland between Irish nationalist militants, who opposed British rule, and pro-U.K. unionists, the BBC reported., according to Reuters reporting.
Biden earlier met with UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak in Belfast later in the day, and then departed for Dublin to meet with Irish President Michael Higgins. President Joe Biden speaking in front of a crowd at Ulster University in Northern Ireland on April 12, 2023. The anniversary comes at a time of increasingly tense politics for Northern Ireland — a rise in nationalist militancy inprompted the U.K. government to increase the threat of a terrorist attack to"severe" this week
Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency has raised the threat level of a domestic terrorist attack in Northern Ireland back up to"severe" — meaning an attack is highly likely — after lowering it just last year.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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