Police deployed water cannons against protesters in Northern Ireland during a second night of clashes. The unrest, fueled by a recent stabbing, saw demonstrators throwing objects and using makeshift barriers.

Police blasted water cannons at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them during a second night of violence Wednesday over a brutal stabbing on a Belfast street. Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed pavements with sledgehammers to toss at riot police. In one place, the unruly crowd used sections of a dismantled picket fence to take cover on the street. The clashes with police came several hours...