The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Belfast - Bank robbers made a giant heist in Belfast after taking hostage two bankers' families. Some reports say the thieves made off with up to $70 million, which would make it the biggest bank robbery in Northern Ireland's history. Police say the thieves took hostage the families of two senior Northern Bank executives at their homes on Sunday. Then they made the executives go to work on Monday at the bank's headquarters in downtown Belfast. The robbers went to the bank after it closed that evening and forced the officials to open the vault that stored money destined for all the bank's 95 branches in Northern Ireland. Washington - U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Slovakia in late February as part of the American administration's attempts to smooth international relations, according to reports. Putin has come under international criticism for a number of moves critics say are taking the country away from democracy. Lima - A bus crash in northern Peru killed 49 people and injured 15, according to reports Monday. The disaster occurred Sunday on a mountainous road. London - A British charity, Save the Children, is pulling out of Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, where it was serving a quarter of a million people. Four of the charity's staff have been killed in two incidents since October.
