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Rioters ignore pleas for calm as violence flares in Belfast

by Peter MorrisonDanica Kirka
| April 11, 2021 12:03 AM

BELFAST (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland deployed water cannons for the first time in six years Thursday as they tried to disperse protesters who hurled stones, fireworks and gasoline-filled bottles at officers during another night of violence in Belfast.

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