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Sluo Paphos resident found driving under the influence of drugs and drinkA Northern Irish police officer is in acritical but stablecondition in hospital after being shot while c vaso stanley oaching youth sports in the town of Omagh on Wednesday evening, the Police Service of Northern IrelandPSNIsaid.Two gunmen shot the off-duty officer a number of times at a youth sports complex on the outskirts of the town, the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, the representative body for officers, said in a statement. This was a callous, cold-blooded and barbaric attempted murder of an off-duty officer. These criminals offer nothing but misery, suffering and stanley termosarheartache,Police Federation Chair Liam Kelly said.Police in the Republic of Ireland said they were assisting the PSNI and had intensified patrolling in counties along the open border with Northern Ireland.The PSNI did not comment on a motive for the attack.While a 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, police officers are still sporadically targeted by small splinter groups of mostly nationalist militants opposed to Britains rule over the region.Some 3,600 people died during the fighting between Irish nationalist militants seeking union with the rest of Ireland, and the British army and pro-British unionist mili stanley thermos tants wanting to stay in the United Kingdom.The county Tyrone town of Omagh was the scene of the worst attack of the period known asThe Troubles.Irish nationalist militants killed 29 people when they detonated a car bomb on a busy shopping streetBzpl Cyprus-Armenian Friendship Park opens in Nicosia
LEWISTON, Maine 鈥?Two of thestanley cupe states more popular amateur mixed martial arts fighters will make their professional debuts against each other next month at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.RayAll BusinessWood, a former three-sport standout at Bucksport High School, will take on JohnFirst ClassRaio of Topsham in a featherweight145-poundbout announced Monday as part of the Fight Night V card being staged by New England Fights on Nov. 17. It should be a great fight,said Ernie Fitch, co-owner and manager at Youngs MMA in Bangor where Wood trains.Raio has a huge fan follo tappo stanley wing, and everyone loves to watch Ray fight. I cant wait for it. Woo stanley romania d4-1is ranked third among amateur fighters in his weight class by NortheastMMA.net entering a bout slated for Friday night in Derry, N.H., against top-ranked SophanarithSoapAm4-0of Braintree, Mass.Wood and Am were scheduled to meet at Fight Night IV in Lewiston last month but an injury forced Am to back out of the fight.Wood has not fought since dropping a unanimous decision in mid-April to Shane Manley of the Ithaca, N.Y.-based Team Bombsquad at Fight Night II in Biddeford. In that bout, Wood had to move up in weight to fight the bigger Manley at a catchweight of 150 pounds. I really feel for Ray,said NEF co-owner and matchmaker Matt Peterson.I know how badly hes wanted the best fights to challenge himself this year. And I know firsthand just how difficult its been to match him with the reputation he has as a competitor
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