SANAA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Protests erupted across much of the Arab world yesterday, the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak’s fall.
In Syria, 22 people were killed, sources in the southern Syrian city of Deraa said, and four people were shot dead in Yemen. In Saudi Arabia Shi’ites protested in the oil-producing east to call for the withdrawal of Saudi troops from Bahrain.
In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, perhaps the spiritual home of the Arab protest movement, crowds demanded Mubarak’s prosecution as
