5 dead in violence over key Baghdad squares
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas in renewed clashes with anti-government protesters in central Baghdad on Friday, killing three people, while Iraqi’s top Shiite religious leader warned its government to heed calls for sweeping political reforms. Separately, two protesters were killed and 10 people wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in a central square, police and hospital officials said. They said the blast, which damaged several cars in the area, occurred in Tayaran square, about 500 meters from Tahrir square, the epicenter of anti-government protests in the capital.