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...BELFAST: Another day, another bomb, another hitch in the Northern Ireland peace talks. No-one has claimed responsibility for Tuesday morning's police-station blast, and no-one was hurt. But that hasn't stopped Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble blaming the IRA, and calling for Sinn Fein to be excluded from the fledgling talks ? just one day after the Republicans arrived. Is this justified? "The IRA denies it, and they're probably telling the truth," says TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand from Belfast. "It looks to be a Republican splinter group. This shows how fragile these talks...
...cash for everything and leave no paper trail for prying eyes. But the seduction of using plastic is the frequent-flyer miles I accrue. By funneling just about everything--from haircuts to a down payment on a used car--into one credit card, I'm flying from Boston to Belfast and back. For me this sure is a tolerable trade-off. TOM WITTENBERG Indianapolis...
...BELFAST: We've never been quite this far down the road of peace before. Today's historic announcement ? that the British government would invite Sinn Fein to take part in Northern Ireland peace talks ? was almost entirely a result of another historic event, the Labor Party's recent election victory. Tony Blair's administration was able to take the six-week-old IRA ceasefire on trust, in a way that John Major couldn't have done without it looking like backpedaling...
...BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Now that the IRA has declared a ceasefire, British and Irish government officials hope to convince Protestant leaders to sit at the bargaining table with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally. Talks are set to begin in mid-September, when a six-week verification period intended to test the IRA's commitment to the cease-fire ends. But even if the group keeps its guns under wraps, key pro-British Protestants have said they will not negotiate with Sinn Fein. Protestants from the United Kingdom Unionist Party walked out of the site of the talks...
...BELFAST: Three Protestant leaders have stormed out the Belfast talks on Northern Ireland's future, proclaiming disgust over a compromise on disarming the paramilitaries of both sides. While Unionist leaders want the IRA to hand their arms to international monitors before talks on wider issues start, the IRA wants to keep them until after a settlement is reached. Yesterday, a 12-page document released by the British and Irish governments attempted to reach a compromise, calling for both the IRA and pro-British paramilitary groups to disarm gradually during the negotiations. That compromise didn't satisfy the Protestant leaders...