[An Nahar] A second night of rioting broke out in Northern Ireland at the height of the Protestant marching season, with coppers attacked and numerous people locked away, police said Wednesday.
Petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and fireworks were thrown at officers and cars were set alight in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, and riot police responded by firing baton rounds and water cannons.
Police said some officers were briefly set on fire when they were hit by petrol bombs.
There was also trouble in south Belfast, where two parked cars were set on fire and a member of the public was hit by thrown masonry. Three young people and two adult men were locked away, police said.
Seven men were locked away as disorder also broke out in the city of Derry.
Thousands of members of the Protestant Orange orders walk the streets every July 12 to commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory of the Protestant king William III of Orange over the Catholic king James II.
There are often festivities as they pass through Catholic, nationalist areas.
Twenty-two copperswere maimed in rioting in Belfast on Monday night when the loyal orders began lighting bonfires, the signal for the start of the Twelfth.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay, speaking on Monday, said the vast majority of parades across Northern Ireland passed off peacefully. He condemned the "pockets" of disorder as "totally unacceptable".
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(KUNA) -- A 21-year-old un-named man set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock on suspicion of disseminating terrorist publications on the internet has been sprung on police bail, British police said Wednesday.
The suspect, who was jugged in Birmingham, central England, yesterday by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, was released pending further inquiries.
West Midlands Police said yesterday that a computer and other electronic equipment had been seized from the man's home for forensic examination.
The force also confirmed that the arrest was not made in response to any immediate threat.
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More things full of emails,contact information, and Internet history, leading to further arrests later. No doubt somebody is enjoying this.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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(KUNA) -- A 21-year-old un-named man 
