Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday, in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.

In Portadown, Northern Ireland, rioters clashed with police amid anti-immigrant violence, prompted by the arrest of two teenagers. The incidents followed a court hearing where the boys denied serious charges via a Romanian interpreter.

Two 14-year-old boys were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The charges were read to the teenagers via a Romanian interpreter, the BBC reported. Police are investigating attacks on four houses as racially-motivated hate crimes.

The country’s police chief Jon Boutcher said the victim of an alleged sexual assault in Ballymena has been ‘further traumatised’ by the unrest.

Days of riots in Northern Ireland have left migrants from other countries mulling their future, with some considering fleeing the UK province to protect their families. It was a kind of "protection",

Police say 41 officers have been injured and 13 people have been arrested after three nights of rioting across several towns.

Riot police were pelted with petrol bombs, masonry and fireworks and nine officers were wounded in the third night of unrest in Northern Ireland, police said on Thursday amid simmering

A demonstration organised on social media called for a ‘peaceful protest to show our anger at what cannot and will not be tolerated in this town’. But after three nights of violence, terrified familie