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Police: IRA dissidents plant car bomb in Belfast

AP News 3 days ago

Police: IRA dissidents plant huge car bomb in Belfast but it fails to explode; 4 other arrests Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's ...

Britain NIreland IRA Dissidents

AP News 3 days ago

Forensic officers are seen outside the police-reform headquarters, near the site where a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb was found, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Northern Ireland's police commander says Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb ...

Shots fired at N.Ireland police: report

AFP European Edition 4 days ago

Police in Northern Ireland came under attack Saturday in a small village near the border with Ireland, the BBC reported, in an incident that will spark concerns of renewed violence in the province. Police in County Fermanagh were not immediately available for ...

Northern Irish police says bomb targets officers

Reuters US Online Report World News 6 days ago

BELFAST (Reuters) - Army experts in Northern Ireland have defused a bomb which targeted police officers, police said on Thursday. Sporadic violence in Northern Ireland has increased in recent months since republican dissidents killed two British soldiers and a police officer in ...

russell brand

WENN 13 days ago

Russell Brand performing his last gig of the ‘Scandalous Tour’ 2009 at the Odyssey Arena Belfast, Northern Ireland - 11.11.09 Copyright 2009 WENN

Kidnapped Irish priest freed in the Philippines: Ireland FM

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

Father Michael Sinnot, an Irish priest kidnapped in the Philippines one month ago, has been freed, Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said late Wednesday in Belfast. "He has been handed over to a clinic where he is being looked after and medically ...

Spain's Ferrovial posts nine-month loss

AFP Global Edition 27 days ago

Spanish construction group Ferrovial, which owns British airports operator BAA, posted Thursday a net loss of 206 million euros during the first nine months of the year due to the weak economy. That compared to net profit of 62 million euros (95 ...

Explosion in Belfast barracks fuels N.Ireland concern

AFP European Edition 34 days ago

An explosive device "capable of causing death or serious injury" went off inside a British army reserve barracks on Thursday, police said, renewing concern for Northern Ireland's peace process. No-one was injured after the device was apparently thrown into the Territorial Army ...

green day

WENN 35 days ago

Billy Joe Armstrong Green Day performing live at the Odyssey Arena Belfast, Northern Ireland - 20.10.09 Copyright 2009 WENN

Brown pledges funds to defuse N. Ireland policing row

AFP European Edition 35 days ago

Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged hundreds of millions of pounds on Wednesday to fund independent policing and justice in Northern Ireland in a bid to defuse a damaging political row there. Brown has been battling to help ease a dispute between the ...

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