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Belfast police, Catholic rioters clash over parade (AP)

July 13th, 2010

Police remove a nationalist protester before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES **AP - Police struggled Tuesday to quell rioting by Irish Catholics in several parts of Northern Ireland following a day of mass Protestant parades, an annual event that often pushes sectarian animosity past the boiling point.


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