3 PROTESTERS KILLED IN FRESH CLASHES IN IRAQ

BAGHDAD: At least three antigovernment protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Iraq, as authorities tried to reopen the country’s main port, which had been blocked by demonstrators for three days. A protester was killed and eight more were wounded in Umm Qasr, a key oil terminal on the Persian Gulf. The Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights announced that two people were killed and 23 wounded in clashes in Nasiriyah.