BRUSSELS (AP) " The Latest on Brexit talks (all times local):
8:25 a.m.
The Northern Ireland party that has been holding up a deal between the U.K. and the EU over the Irish border says it's now satisfied with the agreement.
The Democratic Unionist Party scuttled a deal at the last minute earlier this week, saying it wouldn't support a deal it saw as undermining Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom by treating it as a special case.
The party props up May's government in Parliament, leaving her little choice but to try to get it onside.
Britain and the EU announced Friday they had sealed a reworded agreement.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said the agreement gave "very clear confirmation that the entirety of the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union."
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8:05 a.m.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says an agreement between Britain and the European Union guarantees the rights of 3 million EU citizens in the U.K. and 1 million Britons elsewhere in the bloc.
She also says it ensures there will be no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.
She says Northern Ireland has "a set of unique circumstances" because it has the U.K.'s only land border with an EU country.
The border issue has been threatening to derail the divorce talks.
Earlier this week, a Northern Ireland party that propped up May's government scuttled a deal between the U.K and the bloc, prompting frantic diplomacy.
May said Friday that the agreement would maintain an open border while preserving the constitutional and economic integrity of the U.K.
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7:45 a.m.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is lauding a breakthrough in Brexit talks and says he will recommend that negotiations be broadened to future relations and trade.
Juncker told reporters Friday that "I believe that we have now made the breakthrough that we needed."
He said that he would recommend to European Union leaders that "sufficient progress has been achieved" on the terms of the divorce to starting talking about issues like future relations and trade.
EU leaders meet in Brussels next Thursday and are likely to endorse the assessment that enough progress has been made on the terms of Britain's financial settlement, the status of Irish borders and the rights of citizens hit by Brexit.
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7 a.m.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting with top European Union officials to make a final push to expand talks on her country leaving the bloc to the vital issues of future relations and trade.
May arrived in Brussels early Friday to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after a round of overnight telephone calls appeared to have clinched a breakthrough on the issue of Irish borders.
May's EU partners insist that the talks must make "sufficient progress" on Britain's financial settlement, a way to keep open Northern Ireland's border with Ireland and the rights of citizens hit by Brexit.
They meet in Brussels in a week to decide whether enough ground has been made to broaden the talks to future relations and trade, as Britain so badly wants.