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  • Michelin Star Gives Way to $10 Meal in Ulster Slump: U.K. Credit

    When Deanes Restaurant in Belfast won a Michelin Star in 1997, it signaled a new era for a city better known for bombs than bon viveurs. With rising unemployment and bankruptcies, lunch now costs as little as 6.50 pounds ($10.20) as it tries to lure customers.

  • Poppy Day Bomb Memories Fade as Ulster Town Awaits Obama

    Edith Wilson remembers the last time Enniskillen, the Northern Irish town hosting next week’s Group of Eight summit, swarmed with police.

  • Belfast Troubles Mean Dodging Foreclosure After Bombs

    Belfast store clerk Chantal McCarthy never thought she would have to find a new home at the age of 57. That was before her husband lost his job as a builder three years ago and their finances spiraled downward from there.

  • Why Does Europe Think Hezbollah Is Only Partly Terrorist?

    The European Union is poised to add the military wing of Lebanese Hezbollah to its list of banned terrorist groups. Why not the whole organization?

  • Irish Man Charged Over 1982 London Car Bomb Attack in Hyde Park

    A 61-year-old man from Ireland was charged with the murder of four British soldiers in a 1982 bombing in London’s Hyde Park by the Irish Republican Army.

  • Margaret Thatcher, U.K. ‘Iron Lady’ Prime Minister, Dies

    Margaret Thatcher, the former U.K. prime minister who helped end the Cold War and was known as the “Iron Lady” for her uncompromising style, died yesterday. She was 87.

  • Divided Belfast Laments 15 Years of Peace Bringing No Prosperity

    Robert Ireland and John Bryars are from opposite sides of the 40-foot concrete walls that still embody the sectarian divide in Belfast. Fifteen years after a peace agreement was supposed to replace violence with prosperity, they are united only by unemployment.

  • Why Margaret Thatcher Reminded Me of My Mother

    I admired Margaret Thatcher the way I admired, feared (and loved) my mother. I didn’t share Thatcher’s politics but stood in awe when, through sheer conviction and resolve, she did what needed to be done. Both women were working-class but managed to go toe-to-toe with privilege. Both were charismatic and domineering, controversial and unafraid. Prime Minister Thatcher had a majority in Parliament to accomplish her agenda. My mother had me.

  • Cities Like Boston Show Resolve After Attacks

    The April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon show little of the evil genius displayed on Sept. 11, 2001, only diabolical fiendishness. But the bombings occurred at a place, near the finish line, and a time, four hours after the race began, when crowds would be dense.

  • Texas Factory Blast Leaves at Least One Dead, 35 Missing

    One person was confirmed killed and another 35 people were missing after an explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that injured 160, flattened houses and devastated the center of the town of West.

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