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Tension between students and the administration at Misr International University (MIU) over road safety measures reached a peak on Monday.Protesting students gathered on Monday to condemn the referral of 12 students to investigation. |
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Thousands of residents of the restive Suez Canal city of Port Said in eastern Egypt rallied Monday in a funeral procession for civilians killed during street battles with security forces, as military police deployed to secure the gathering. |
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Workers from National Socit Gnrale Bank (NSGB) held a protest outside bank headquarters in downtown Cairo. The strike was organised by an independent workers' union to prevent the sale of NSGB to the Qatar National Bank. |
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The 6 April Movement announced on Monday that Khaled Al-Aqqad, a movement member, has been missing for five days. 6 April accused Homeland Security (formerly State Security) and the Ministry of Interior of being behind his disappearance. |
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An Egyptian police officer was killed by unknown assailants on Tuesday morning in a failed attempt to raid the Ahly Bank in Old Cairo.From a white van, the assailants fired shots at the police patrol, aiming at the head of the police station but killing one of his officers instead. |
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Clashes also broke out on Tuesday near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo between police and demonstrators, who gathered for the funeral of an activist, Mohamed El-Shafaai, killed during protests in January and whose body took several weeks to identify. |
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During the time of the funeral prayers, a protest organised by Nation Without Torture campaign took place outside the Forensic Medical Authority calling for retribution for the protesters killed as well as the prosecution of Ihsan Kameel, head of the authority, for allegedly forging medical reports, |
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Fresh clashes broke out on Tuesday between police and protesters in the restive Suez Canal city of Port Said, Tension was running high around the main security building, which was set ablaze on Tuesday for the second day in a row, with anti-riot police firing tear gas at protesters hurling petrol bombs. One person died from head wound caused by teargas canister fired by police during protests. |
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Funeral prayers for Nassef were held inside the police mosque after which dozens of police officers temporarily blocked Salah Salem road, an essential traffic artery, in protest of the death of their colleague. |
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In Ismailia, however, striking security personnel called off a strike they started Tuesday after presenting their demands to be submitted to the interior minister. |