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Four leaders of the Real IRA are found liable for the bombing, the biggest single atrocity in decades of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troubles\">The Troubles<\/a>&#8221; in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah concedes defeat to the Western-leaning March 14 coalition in yesterday&#8217;s highly-contested elections in Lebanon. American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for &#8220;hostile acts&#8221; after the pair allegedly entered North Korean territory illegally while reporting a story about North Korean refugees in China. 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