2009年3月8日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Real IRA claims killing of British soldiers (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 02:18 PM PDT

Police close off the road that leads to Massereen army base in County Antrim. The republican dissident group behind Northern Ireland's worst single atrocity apparently claimed responsibility Sunday for shooting dead two British soldiers at an army base.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - A dissident republican group opposed to Northern Ireland's power-sharing government apparently said Sunday it shot dead two British soldiers at an army base, the first such killing in 12 years.


US 'condemns' N. Ireland shootings (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Police close off the road that leads to Massereen army base in County Antrim. The United States said Sunday it AFP - The United States said Sunday it "condemns" the killing of two British soldiers by suspected republican dissidents in Northern Ireland.


Pledges of peace after fatal N.Ireland attack (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Police forensic officers examine the scene at the Massereene army barracks in Antrim, west of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday, March, 8, 2009 after two British soldiers were shot to death and four other people wounded in a drive-by ambush that politicians blamed on IRA dissidents. Suspected IRA dissidents who opened fire on British soldiers and pizza delivery men outside an army base shot their victims again as they lay wounded on the ground, police said Sunday. Two soldiers died and four other people, including two men delivering pizzas, remained hospitalized with serious wounds following Saturday night's attack at the entrance to Massereene army barracks in Antrim, west of Belfast.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Catholic and Protestant congregations prayed together for peace Sunday after IRA dissidents killed two British soldiers as they collected pizzas — the first deadly attack on Northern Ireland security forces in 12 years.


Police arrest custard-hurling protester (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 08:43 AM PDT

The climate change protester who hurled green custard into the face of Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has been arrested.(AFP/Plane Stupid/File)AFP - The climate change protester who hurled green custard into the face of Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has been arrested, police said on Sunday.


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