Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has received a death threat from loyalists, it was revealed today.

A Sinn Féin minister in the North has been warned of an attempt to murder him by loyalist paramilitaries.

Rival loyalist paramilitary organisations may have joined forces to brutally murder a Catholic teenager in the North, an inquest heard today.

Margaret Thatcher was warned the British Army suspected the Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily infiltrated by Protestant extremists in the North four years before she became UK Prime Minister, it was claimed today.

Nationalist residents groups cast doubt today over their involvement in a conference on the Northern Ireland parades issue after two of their leading spokesmen received death threats from a renegade loyalist group.

US authorities have frozen the assets of five Northern Ireland groups it lists as terrorist organisations.

The European Union introduced a package of anti-terrorism measures today, branding six Irish groups as terrorists.

The European Union has placed republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on a list of organisations and individuals it accuses of supporting terrorism.

Colin Powell has stepped up pressure on breakaway republican and loyalist terror groups.

The American Government has recommended outlawing Loyalist and Republican paramilitary groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, it emerged today.

Northern Secretary Dr John Reid has been told by Sinn Fein minister Martin McGuinness that he ‘‘made a fool of himself’’ by not declaring that the Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters’ ceasefire was over.