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Apr 11 2008, AP

Peter Robinson is expected to be elected next week to succeed Ian Paisley as leader of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government and the Democratic Unionists, according to their Protestant partyh.In a statement Thursday, the Democratic Unionists said...

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New York Gov. David Paterson, right, appears at a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., with Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Paterson commended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for her service, but refused to speculate..