Ousted loyalist paramilitary chief Ihab Shoukri has been charged with terrorist offences.

Eleven men are due to appear in court today charged in connection with an alleged loyalist "show of strength" in Belfast.

Police in the North have used CS gas rounds during a dramatic operation to break up a meeting of loyalist paramilitaries at a bar in north Belfast.

Police in North Belfast tonight raided a bar in what is believed to be a major operation against the loyalist Ulster Defence Association.