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Clashes at Orange order march By Alex Richardson BELFAST (Reuters) - Twenty-five police officers have been injured in clashes in a flashpoint district of Belfast as the biggest day in Northern Ireland's summer marching season ended in violence, a police spokesman says. Hundreds of Protestants and Catholics pelted each other with stones and bottles in the Ardoyne district in the north of the city after a contentious 'Orange' parade on Monday evening. 'Approximately 25 police officers were injured during yesterday evening's disturbances,' a Northern Ireland police spokesman said. 'None of the officers were seriously injured.' The clashes broke out as Protestant Orangemen marched past the Catholic Ardoyne neighbourhood in celebration of a famous battlefield victory over Catholics more than 300 years ago. Hundreds of bystanders from both sides of Northern Ireland's sectarian divide threw missiles at each other over the top of the parade and over the huge blockade of police and British Army vehicles and armoured cars set up to keep them apart. Full story at
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