Leaders call for calm after week of violence in Northern Ireland
08 April 2021 - 19:21
Belfast — Northern Ireland's power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to appeal for calm after more than a week of nightly violence partly fuelled by frustration over post-Brexit trade barriers.
Hundreds of youths in the British province's capital Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones on Wednesday in scenes reviving memories of decades of sectarian and political strife that claimed about 3,600 lives before a 1998 peace deal...
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