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31.25654 |
32.28412 |
Egypt |
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In Port Said, a city that for weeks has been in open rebellion against the Islamist president, several hundred people, many of them relatives of the defendants, gathered outside the local government offices to vent their anger. They chanted slogans against Morsi's government and the verdicts. |
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30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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In unrelated violence, at least two protesters were killed on Saturday in clashes between riot police and stone-throwing demonstrators on a Nile-side street in central Cairo. One of the dead persons suffocated from inhaling teargas and the other died from a rubber bullet wound, the source confirmed. Nineteen others were injured in the clashes near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies. |
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30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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Meanwhile, groups of masked people roamed downtown streets burning two fast-food restaurants that are rumored to belong to an Islamist Businessman, reported the Middle East News Agency.Several gunshots were heard in the area while citizens formed popular committees to protect shopping malls and houses. |
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30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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Members of 6 April Youth Movement (Ahmed Maher front) gathered in front of Abdeen Court on Saturday, to protest the arrest and detainment of their members, and demanding investigations into the death of Gaber "Jika" Salah. |
| 5,566,639 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
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4 Islamist gunmen shot dead a man selling alcohol in Egypt's Sinai peninsula |
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31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
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Police officers in the city of Al-Arish have resumed their strike after suspending it on Friday. The suspension lasted until 8pm on Friday giving high-level Sinai security officials the chance to respond to their demands. |
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30.9761 |
31.1669 |
Egypt |
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Seven people were injured in renewed violent confrontations that took place late on Saturday by a Mahala police station in Gharbiya. Trying to raid the station, protesters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces who responded with teargas to disperse them. |
| 5,565,725 |
31.25654 |
32.28412 |
Egypt |
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Several protesters in Port Said, a strategic city at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal, sought to disrupt shipping in the vital waterway by releasing small speedboats into the traffic lanes, although the effort failed to disrupt shipping. Others set fire to tires on the city's dock to prevent ships from coming in, but that again was quickly abandoned. |
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30.0667 |
31.2167 |
Egypt |
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Shortly after the verdict was announced Saturday, suspected fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly club who had gathered in the thousands outside the team's headquarters in central Cairo went on a rampage, torching a police club nearby and storming Egypt's soccer federation headquarters before setting it ablaze. The Egyptian Football Federation decided subsequently to halt all football activity in Egypt for an indefinite period, reported AlArabaiya News Channel. |
| 5,565,734 |
31.1143 |
30.94012 |
Egypt |
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Some police officers started on Saturday an open-ended strike in Kafr Al-Sheikh governorate. The striking police officers closed the main door to the governorate's Security Directorate building. The police officers demand sacking the minister of interior and his assistants, cleansing the ministry, raising the salaries of police officers and finding a quick solution to the current political crisis. |
