LONDON - Britain's parliament passed legislation Wednesday allowing the Northern Ireland Assembly to be dissolved in January and an election held weeks later in hopes of reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration.
The 108-member assembly, whose primary purpose is to elect a power-sharing administration, will be dissolved Jan. 30, and a new one elected March 7.
Power-sharing was the central goal of the 1998 U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord. But cooperation has been on hold since 2002 because of tension between Protestant leaders and Sinn Fein....