McGuinness says won't accept 'reckless' UK welfare cuts

Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said on Wednesday his Sinn Fein party would not accept "reckless" social welfare cutbacks demanded by the British government that have become a major sticking point in crisis talks. Sinn Fein and pro-British rivals the Democratic Unionist Party are in talks to avoid the collapse of the region's power-sharing government after police said Sinn Fein's former allies in the Irish Republican Army were probably involved in a killing. The talks