Historic handshake boosts Anglo-Irish relations

In an historic gesture, Britain's Queen Elizabeth has shaken hands with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness.
 
It took just a matter of seconds, but for many the encounter between the official head of the British armed forces and a former key figure in the movement that battled them with the bullet and the bomb for decades, could barely have been more symbolic.
 
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