Taking the responsibility for the Conservatives' disastrous performance in last week's general election, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday offered an apology to the angry MPs of her Party.
Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill has said she will raise the issue with Mrs May in face-to-face talks in London on Thursday.
At least six people died and dozens were injured when a massive fire tore through a 24-storey London apartment block overnight, a fresh blow to the capital less than two weeks after the London Bridge terror attack. "I think it's unlikely there will be any announcement today", a DUP spokesman told AFP.
On Monday, she faces members of the Conservatives' 1922 Committee, which can trigger a vote of confidence in a party leader if it receives letters from 15 percent of the party's MPs.
She said: "I think there is a unity of objective among people in the United Kingdom".
Theresa May needs the votes of the DUP's 10 MPs to prop up her minority administration as she hopes to steer government business - including crucial measures on Brexit - through the Commons.
It is thought Mrs Foster, despite being a Brexit supporter, could seek assurances from Mrs May that she will pursue a softer exit from the European Union, given Northern Ireland's 56% Remain vote and the DUP's desire not to see a return to a hard border with Ireland.
Brexit minister David Davis insisted the government still aimed to take Britain out of the European Union single market in order "to take back control of our borders".
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In her essay, Fowler wrote that she was propositioned by her manager on her first day with an engineering team. That was a stark contrast to the prosecutors' presentation, in which they called 12 witnesses over five days.
U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis and his European counterpart Michel Barnier will open negotiations over Britain's split from the European Union on Monday, nearly a year after the country voted to leave.
"We want to know what is in the deal they are offering to the DUP and we want to know when it is going to be put before Parliament", he said. "We are ready as soon as the United Kingdom itself".
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, warned Tuesday that "the current uncertainty can not continue" and on Wednesday issued five "pressing questions" on Twitter.
And, Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator said: "We haven't negotiated, we haven't progressed".
"As a matter of fact in this case it's not for me to say whether or not this decision should be questioned - the decision to leave the European Union - but until the negotiations come to an end, of course there is always the possibility to re-open the door", he added.
John Major said he had serious doubts about a proposed tie-up the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which is traditionally associated with the Protestant side of the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland.
May does not necessarily need a firm deal from the DUP before opening parliament and might hope that she would receive the necessary backing anyway. However, the prospect of a deal has prompted warnings that it could upset Northern Ireland's fragile peace.
He told BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme: "The last thing anybody wishes to see is one or other of the communities so aggrieved that the hardmen, who are still there lurking in the corners of the communities, decide that they wish to return to some form of violence". The Conservatives won 318 out of 650 seats.
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