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Shoaib Hasan reporting
World News from the BBC
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged other countries to "get on the right side of history", as she put it, by cutting ties with the government in Syria. Mrs Clinton said President Bashar al-Assad could be isolated by a concerted international effort involving an end to arms sales to Syria and sanctions on the purchase of Syrian oil and gas. In Syria itself, there's been further bloodshed. Reports say at least 10 people have been killed by the security forces in a number of locations. Jim Muir is monitoring developments from Beirut.
Another Friday in nearly five months into the uprising, and again people came out onto the streets after midday prayers to chant slogans calling for President Assad and his regime to go. Activists said that security forces opened fire in a number of places. The highest casualties reported were in Duma, a suburb of Damascus, where a woman and a 16-year-old were named among those who died. Despite all the killings and arrests, the protesters are still braving the dangers to keep the uprising alive even in the areas where defiance has been repeatedly and ruthlessly suppressed.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets of towns and cities across Yemen as part of the continuing campaign for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Supporters of the president also turned out in force.