| 5,565,631 |
30.78847 |
31.00192 |
Egypt |
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Central security recruits protesting in Tanta forced an Al-Jazeera television team out of the strike, accusing the Qatari-owned channel of defaming the image of the interior ministry. |
| 5,565,636 |
29.60282 |
32.68963 |
Egypt |
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Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, where two British tourists were freed just hours after their kidnapping on Thursday.A military intelligence official said the couple was released unharmed after police promised the Bedouin kidnappers that they would release a detained relative who had been arrested and accused of smuggling weapons from Libya to Egypt. Security forces at South Sinai Security Directorate liberate two British tourists who were kidnapped while traveling to Ra's Sidr. |
| 5,565,640 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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The Egyptian Coalition on Children's Rights (ECCR) reported on Wednesday that security forces have been using children as human shields in clashes along the Nile Corniche in Downtown Cairo.The report stated that during clashes on the Corniche, police officers were putting children as young as 12 in the front lines to repel attacks by protesters, often arming these children with stones and Molotov cocktails. |
| 5,565,644 |
31.20168 |
29.94458 |
Egypt |
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Alexandria Protesters have broken into the temporary governorate building in Alexandria. The main governorate building was abandoned following intense clashes in the area last week. |
| 5,565,648 |
31.1143 |
30.94012 |
Egypt |
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Central Security Forces (CSF) conscripts and police NCOs are holding a sit-in, demanding the removal of Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim. |
| 5,565,652 |
30.9761 |
31.1669 |
Egypt |
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Clashes erupted in the Gharbeya city of Mahalla between protesters and police forces in front of the Second Mahalla Police Station, exchanging rocks and teargas canisters.Protesters surrounded the station, calling for the removal of President Morsi and Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim, and the end of Muslim Brotherhood rule. |
| 5,565,656 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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Friday saw modest protests against President Mohamed Morsi and the Ministry of Interior in the Delta and Lower Egypt regions as well as Cairo and Alexandria. Dozens of youth clashed with policemen on the nearby Qasr Al-Nil bridge and in Simon Bolivar Square near the American Embassy. |
| 5,565,659 |
30.04442 |
31.2357 |
Egypt |
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Friday saw modest protests against President Mohamed Morsi and the Ministry of Interior in the Delta and Lower Egypt regions as well as Cairo and Alexandria. In Downtown Cairo hundreds gathered in Tahrir Square demanding the removal of President Morsi and the handing over of power to Supreme Constitutional Court Chairman Maher El-Behairy. |
| 5,565,662 |
31.03637 |
31.38069 |
Egypt |
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Friday saw modest protests against President Mohamed Morsi and the Ministry of Interior in the Delta and Lower Egypt regions as well as Cairo and Alexandria. In Mansoura, the capital of Daqahleya, protesters took to the street again, surrounding the Daqahleya governorate security directorate. There have been no clashes with the police so far. |
| 5,565,665 |
31.25654 |
32.28412 |
Egypt |
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Gen. Ahmed Mahmoud Wasfi, commander of the 2nd Field Army, addressed protesters outside the main police headquarters, where the bottom floors were gutted by fire during the clashes the past week. He called on residents to call off a wave of strikes and civil disobedience that has shut down much of the work in the city the past three weeks. |
