Clinton revisits family legacy in riot-torn Belfast

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Friday with Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, right, and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, left, at Stormont Castle in Belfast on Friday.

By Reuters BELFAST -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled Friday to Northern Ireland to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on the eve of her visit and the seizure of a bomb.

Making one of her last foreign trips in her current job, she visits a province transformed by the 1998 peace agreement that her husband helped bring about in what was regarded as one of the greatest successes of his presidency.

But Northern Ireland remains riven by sectarian tensions and Clinton arrives in a week that has seen three riots, the appropriation of a bomb over 62 miles outside Belfast, and the arrest of four militant nationalists.

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