Police use water cannon in Belfast on second night of unrest (opens in new tab)

Police in Northern Ireland used water cannon on Wednesday night as masked protesters set fires and threw bricks, rocks and bottles during a second night of anti-immigrant unrest after a stabbing in north Belfast. Hadi Alodid, 30, from Sudan, appeared in Belfast Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder after a knife attack that left Stephen Ogilvie seriously injured and blind in his left eye. The unrest followed the online spread of graphic video from Monday’s attack; far-right figures...