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Bomb Explodes in Belfast

Northern Ireland

Outside MI5 headquarters.

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A bomb exploded outside Britain’s domestic spying agency’s office in Northern Ireland on Monday, as London transferred police and justice powers to Belfast. An elderly man was wounded in the attack, which was carried out by the “Real IRA”—the same Republican group that killed two British soldiers last year in...

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