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Sinn Fein party election election workers fix one of their posters outside a polling station in Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on March 2, 2017 as voters go to the polls to elect a new Assembly.
Northern Ireland began voting in snap elections to resolve a political crisis fuelled by bad blood and Brexit, which is testing the delicate peace in the British province. Long-simmering tensions boiled over in January when the Sinn Fein party -- once the political arm of the Irish Republican Army -- brought down the province's semi-autonomous government. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL MCERLANE (Photo credit should read PAUL MCERLANE/AFP via Getty Images)