Baghdad — Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live bullets in clashes on Sunday with protesters who resisted with stones and petrol bombs,  witnesses and security sources said.

More than 100 protesters were hurt, including at least 75 in the southern city of Nassiriya, in the renewed violence in Baghdad and other cities after the security forces tried to clear sit-in protest camps, medical sources said...

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