71.   The Senate debate comes a week after passage of an even broader anti-abortion measure in the House of Representatives.

72.   The Senate debate comes a week after the historic passage of a bill banning late-term abortions in the House of Represenatives.

73.   With peace has come a debate on the role of the RUC in a heavily-policed province.

74.   The debate also came up at a Copenhagen UN summit on sociali affairs last year.

75.   The emergency debate on Thursday comes following repeated calls by the organisation for both sides in the Middle East conflict to work together to achieve peace in the region.

76.   The debate comes amid threats of new social strife.

77.   The debate came amid concern over soaring real-estate prices which prompted the government last week to announce sweeping measures to cool the overheated property market.