<p>Galvanized by the death of a demonstrator in clashes with the police on Monday, protesters waved flags and chanted “peaceful” under the square’s towering monument as a police helicopter hovered overhead. Hundreds of protesters also massed on a nearby bridge overpass. Hours before, protesters clashed with the police and a second demonstrator was killed by gunfire, spurring the largest Shiite bloc to suspend its participation in the country’s Parliament. <br /><br />Protesters called for a new Constitution and democratic changes to allow for a more effective representative Parliament and government. As protests widened around the region, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa made a rare television appearance in which he offered condolences on the protesters' deaths and said the process of change in the kingdom “will not stop,” according to the official Bahrain News Agency.<br /><br />Yemeni protests snowball<br />In Yemen, police officers prevented several hundred antigovernment protesters from marching near Sana University in the capital.<br /></p>
<p>Galvanized by the death of a demonstrator in clashes with the police on Monday, protesters waved flags and chanted “peaceful” under the square’s towering monument as a police helicopter hovered overhead. Hundreds of protesters also massed on a nearby bridge overpass. Hours before, protesters clashed with the police and a second demonstrator was killed by gunfire, spurring the largest Shiite bloc to suspend its participation in the country’s Parliament. <br /><br />Protesters called for a new Constitution and democratic changes to allow for a more effective representative Parliament and government. As protests widened around the region, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa made a rare television appearance in which he offered condolences on the protesters' deaths and said the process of change in the kingdom “will not stop,” according to the official Bahrain News Agency.<br /><br />Yemeni protests snowball<br />In Yemen, police officers prevented several hundred antigovernment protesters from marching near Sana University in the capital.<br /></p>